August 2-15, 2012: Public Religion Research Institute Race, Class and Culture Survey—National poll on whether poor people have become too dependent on government assistance programs.
(As I read a few statements please say if you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with each one.)…Poor people have become too dependent on government assistance programs. Do you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with this statement?
33% Completely agree
37% Mostly agree
19% Mostly disagree
9% Completely disagree
2% Don’t know/Refused
Survey by PRRI. Methodology: Conducted by Public Religion Research Institute, August 2 – August 15, 2012 and based on 2,501 telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. Interviews were conducted by Directions in Research. 1501 respondents were interviewed on landline telephones, and 1000 were interviewed on cell phones. The survey was funded by the Bend and the Arc Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. [USPRRI.12CLASS.R14E]
Formal Citation
Public Religion Research Institute Race, Class and Culture Survey, Aug, 2012. Retrieved Oct-3-2012 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html