December 5-9, 2012: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Political Survey—Nationwide poll on reducing government spending.
(Next I’d like to ask about some things that have been in the news. Please answer as best you can. If you don’t know the answer just tell me and we’ll move to the next question.)…As you may know, automatic tax increases and spending cuts are scheduled to take place in January (2013)….If these automatic spending cuts take place, which area of government spending would be reduced the most?…Military defense, Social Security, food stamps
38% Military defense
28% Social Security
20% Food stamps
14% Don’t know/Refused
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Conducted by Abt SRBI, December 5 – December 9, 2012 and based on 1,503 telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. 900 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 603 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 300 who had no landline telephone. [USSRBI.121312.R31]
(Thinking about ways to reduce the deficit and size of the national debt, please tell me if you would approve or disapprove of each of the following.)…Reduce federal funding for programs that help lower-income Americans…Would you approve or disapprove of this as a way to reduce the size of the national debt?
38% Approve
58% Disapprove
4% Don’t know/Refused
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Conducted by Abt SRBI, December 5 – December 9, 2012 and based on 1,503 telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. 900 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 603 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 300 who had no landline telephone. [USSRBI.121312.R47FF1]
Formal Citation
Pew Research Center for the People , Dec, 2012. Retrieved Jan-9-2013 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html