- Topics:
- Belief in climate change; support for state and/or federal policies to address climate change
- Survey questionnaire
- Pre-run data tables
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Access data at ICPSR
- Methodology:
- This survey ran from September 8 to September 24, 2008 and received responses from 603 adult residents of the United States.
- More Information
The Fall 2008 NSEE surveyed 603 adult (age 18 or older) residents of the United States between September 8 and September 24, 2008. Respondents were interviewed in English by the staff of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion (MCIPO) in Allentown, Pennsylvania on the Institute’s Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system.
With a randomly selected sample of 603 respondents the margin of error for the surveys is ±4% at a 95% level of confidence. Margins of error for questions with smaller sample sizes will be larger. In addition to sampling error, one should consider that question wording and other fielding issues can introduce error or bias into survey results. The sample data has been weighted by age, race, educational attainment, income and gender. The calculation of sampling error takes into account design effects due to the weighting identified above. In order to reach a representative sample of adult Americans phones are called up to 10 times. Due to rounding, the totals provided in tables may not equal 100.
The instrument was designed by Christopher Borick of Muhlenberg College and Barry Rabe of the University of Michigan. For more detailed information on the methods employed please contact the MCIPO at 484-664-3444 or email Dr. Borick at cborick@muhlenberg.edu.
Funding, Financial Disclosure, and Research Transparency
The 2008 survey was funded by the WestWind Foundation, the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, and the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the University of Michigan.
The NSEE is committed to transparency in all facets of our work, including timely release and posting of data from each survey wave. A grant from the Office of the Provost at the University of Michigan has allowed us to provide online access to earlier waves of the NSEE, including frequency tables, survey instruments, and datasets.
