July 31-August 10, 2008: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press/Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Religion & Public Life Survey—Nationwide poll on which sector is best able to provide services to people in need.
“In general, who do you think can do the best job of providing services to people in need…religious organizations, non-religious, community-based organizations, or federal and state government agencies?”
31% Religious organizations
29% Non-religious, community-based organizations
31% Federal and state government agencies
3% None of the above (Vol.)
6% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: .
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Abt SRBI, July 31 – August 10, 2008 and based on 2,905 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 2254 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 651 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 262 who had no landline telephone. [USSRBI.082108P.R30]
Formal Citation
Pew Research Center for the People , Jul, 2008. 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