January 26-March 8, 2009: US Role in Global Health Survey—Nationwide survey asks respondents to rank the largest areas of spending by the federal government.
“Which of the items on this list would you say are the two largest areas of spending by the federal government…defense, foreign aid, Medicare, Social Security, or food stamps? (Probe, if necessary:) If you had to choose two items from the list, which would you choose?…Defense, foreign aid, Medicare, Social Security, food stamps”
54% Defense
45% Foreign aid
33% Medicare
33% Social Security
17% Food stamps
4% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form 2A one-quarter sample. Adds to more than 100% due to multiple responses.
Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, January 26 – March 8, 2009 and based on 2,554 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult including oversamples of blacks, hispanics, and 18-29 year olds. Results were weighed to be representative of a national adult population. 1951 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 603 on a cell phone, including 214 who had no landline phone. [USPSRA.09GLOBH.R11]
Formal Citation
US Role in Global Health Survey, Jan, 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