Simon Poll, Spring 2017 (statewide)
Description
Motivation
The mission of the non-partisan Paul Simon Public Policy Institute polling is to provide citizens, policy-makers, and academic researchers with objective information about trends and issues facing society.
Sample and Geographic Coverage
The 2017 Spring Simon Poll interviewed 1,000 registered voters across Illinois.
Polling Method
Live telephone interviews. Cell phone interviews accounted for 60 percent of the sample. A Spanish language version of the questionnaire and a Spanish-speaking interviewer were made available.
Margin of Error
Plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. The margin for error will be larger for demographic, geographic and response subgroups.
Date
Poll conducted from March 4-11, 2017.
Polling Agency
Customer Research International of San Marcos, Texas[1].
Funding Source
The survey was paid for with non-tax dollars from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute’s endowment fund.
[1] Customer Research International reports no Illinois political clients.
Date created
3-2017
Date issued
1-2019
Geographic coverage
Illinois
Keywords
general outlook, job approval, Illinois budget, health care, Obamacare, poverty, regionalism, marijuana, human trafficking
Codebook
Crosstabs.SimonPoll.2018Sp.pdf (745 kB)
Demographic crosstabs
Data.SimonPoll.2018Sp.sav (103 kB)
SPSS data file
Data.SimonPoll.2018Sp.csv (138 kB)
Recommended Citation
Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, "Simon Poll, Spring 2017 (statewide)" (2017). Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Statewide Polls. Paper 14.
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/ppi_statepolls/14