April 8-14, 2009: Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll—Nationwide poll on financial security in retirement.
“In general, which one of the following do you think would be the most effective in ensuring most Americans are financially secure in retirement?…Personally save more and make better investment decisions, an expanded government retirement program beyond Social Security that would create and contribute to government-managed pensions for low-income and middle-income Americans, even if it means increasing your taxes, more products offered by investment and insurance companies that provide a lower, but guaranteed, rate of return, more government regulation of the investments people make, and the products investment companies can offer for retirement”
48% Personally save more and make better investment decisions
22% An expanded government retirement program beyond Social Security that would create and contribute to government-managed pensions for low-income and middle-income Americans, even if it means increasing your taxes
12% More products offered by investment and insurance companies that provide a lower, but guaranteed, rate of return
10% More government regulation of the investments people make, and the products investment companies can offer for retirement
9% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form A half sample.
Survey by Allstate, National Journal. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by FD Americas, April 8 – April 14, 2009 and based on 1,200 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. [USFD.042509.R19]
Formal Citation
Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll, Apr, 2009. Retrieved Sep-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html