March 31-April 21, 2009: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Values Survey—This nationwide survey includes three questions on government assistance programs and the national debt.
“(Now I am going to read you another series of statements on some different topics. For each statement, please tell me if you completely agree with it, mostly agree with it, mostly disagree with it or completely disagree with it.)…Poor people have become too dependent on government assistance programs.”
33% Completely agree
39% Mostly agree
16% Mostly disagree
6% Completely disagree
6% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form 1 half sample.
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, March 31 – April 21, 2009 and based on 3,013 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. The results use a combination of two surveys, A. March 31-April 6, 2009 and B. April 14-21, 2009. 2266 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 753 were interviewed on a cell phone including 271 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.052109.R30VF1]
Formal Citation
Pew Research Center for the People , Mar, 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
“(Now I am going to read you another series of statements on some different topics. For each statement, please tell me if you completely agree with it, mostly agree with it, mostly disagree with it or completely disagree with it.)…The government should guarantee every citizen enough to eat and a place to sleep.”
28% Completely agree