National Center for Fathering
1996 Gallup Poll Results
The following survey results are from telephone interviews with a national sample of 793 adults, 18 years of age or older conducted from Jan. 11-18, 1996 by The Gallup Organization, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey for the National Center for Fathering. More details are reported in "The Heart of a Father" by Ken Canfield (Northfield: Chicago: 1996); or the complete report can be purchased from the National Center for Fathering at (800) 593-3237.
For results based on samples of this size, one can say with 95 percent confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects could be plus or minus four percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting a survey can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.
The sample used for this survey was a proportionate stratified random digit telephone sample drawn from telephone exchanges serving the continental United States. The sampling method was designed to produce an unbiased random sample of telephone households. Demographic weighting was applied to the dataset in order to bring the demographic characteristics of the sample into line with the most recently available Census Bureau estimates of the characteristics of the population to which these results are projected, i.e. the total population of adults (age 18 and older) living in telephone households in the continental
United States.
Highlights of the results follow (percentages may not add to 100% because of those who refused to answer or didn't know):
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