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Subject: NY Times Method For Conducting Phone Poll
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 742, Message 6 of 11


Some telecom items, in this newspaper excerpt referring to an opinion
poll.

New York Times, Oct. 14, 1990, page 25 column 1,
first 3 paragraphs only.

How the Poll Was Conducted

"The latest New York Times/CBS News Poll is based on telephone
interviews conducted Oct. 8-10 with 960 adults around the nation,
excluding Alaska and Hawaii.

"The sample of telephone exchanges called was selected by a computer
from a complete list of exchanges in the country.  The exchanges were
chosen so as to insure that each region of the country was represented
in proportion to its population.  For each exchange, the telephone
numbers were formed by random digits, thus permitting access to both
listed and unlisted numbers.  The numbers were then screened so that
only residences would be called.

"The results have been weighted to take account of household size and
number of residential telephone lines and to adjust for variations in
the sample relating to region, race, sex, age and education."