October 9-12, 2008: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Political & Economic Survey—National survey on the government۪s role in helping the needy.
“(I’m going to read you some pairs of statements, tell me whether the first statement or the second statement comes closer to your own views–even if neither is exactly right.)…The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt. The government today can’t afford to do much more to help the needy. (After choice is made, probe:) Do you feel strongly about that, or not?”
42% First statementStrongly
9% First statementNot strongly
28% Second statementstrongly
9%- Second statement-not strongly
12% Neither (Vol.)/Don۪t know
Subpopulation/Note: .
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, October 9 – October 12, 2008 and based on 1,485 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 1110 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 375 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 114 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.101508.R28C]
Formal Citation
Pew Research Center for the People , 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