THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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U.S. Should Not Concern Itself with World Problems  1956-2008


                           '56  '58  '60  '62  '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04  '08 
 
                    Agree   25   24   18   **   **   **   23   **   20   **   26   **   18   **   24   29   29   30   26   31   27   18   28   21   21   30 
                 Disagree   57   56   66   **   **   **   74   **   77   **   67   **   78   **   73   66   67   66   72   67   72   81   70   78   79   67 
        Don't Know, Other   18   20   16   **   **   **    3   **    3   **    7   **    5   **    4    5    4    4    3    3    1    1    2    1    1    2
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                       N  1758 1812 1919                1337      2688      2385      1398       971 1080 2032  975 2483 1763 1709 1277  891 1471 1210 2322  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 4D.1
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "'This country would be better off if we just stayed home and did
     not concern ourselves with problems in other parts of the world.'"
       


     This question is variable VCF0823 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  05AUG10