October 28-November 2, 2008: What Women Want Survey—Nationwide poll of women includes two questions about domestic poverty and the relative importance of issues such as health care, housing, and civil rights.
“(As I read a list of issues the new president (Barack Obama) and Congress might address in the first year of the new administration (2009), please tell me if you think each should be one of their top priorities, a lower priority, or not a priority at all.) What about…poverty in the US (United States)? Should this be one of their top priorities, a lower priority, or not a priority at all?”
79% Top priority
18% Lower priority
2% Not a priority
1% Don۪t know
* Refused
Subpopulation/Note: . * = less than .5%.
Survey by YWCA. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, October 28 – November 2, 2008 and based on 1,000 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult women ages 18-70. Interviews were conducted by Braun Research. [USPSRA.08WOMENW.R01I]
Formal Citation
What Women Want Survey, Oct, 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
“If you were the new president (in 2009), which one of the issues you say should be top priorities would you address in the first 100 days of your administration?…The financial crisis in the US (United States), the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, unemployment including layoffs and jobs sent overseas, terrorism and national security, health care reform, the housing crisis including home mortgages and foreclosures, poverty in the US, quality and cost of education, immigration, raising the minimum wage, the environment and climate change, violence against women in the US, human rights and democracy abroad, HIV/AIDS, civil rights and racial justice in the US”
38% The financial crisis in the U.S.
12% The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
9% Unemployment including layoffs and jobs sent overseas
7% Terrorism and national security
6% Health care reform
6% The housing crisis including home mortgages and foreclosures
4% Poverty in the U.S.
3% Quality and cost of education
2% Immigration
2% Raising the minimum wage
1% The environment and climate change
1% Violence against women in the U.S.
1% Human rights and democracy abroad
1% HIV/AIDS
1% Civil rights and racial justice in the U.S.
6% Can۪t choose one/Combination of top priorities (Vol.)
* None is a top priority
2% Don۪t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: . * = less than .5%.
Survey by YWCA. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, October 28 – November 2, 2008 and based on 1,000 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult women ages 18-70. Interviews were conducted by Braun Research. [USPSRA.08WOMENW.R02]
Formal Citation
What Women Want Survey, Oct, 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