THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Condition of Nation's Economy Over the Last Year  1980-2004


                           '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04 
 
            Gotten Better    4   12   43   24   19    4    5   35   38   47   39    5   24 
              Stayed Same   13   18   33   42   50   22   23   38   45   38   44   23   31 
             Gotten Worse   83   70   24   35   31   74   72   28   17   15   17   72   45
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                       N  1580 1377 2156 2086 1956 1944 2458 1746 1698 1260 1788 1501 1196  



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



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "How about (1996-LATER: Now thinking about) the economy (1990,1994-
     later: in the country as a whole)?"
     ALL YEARS EXC.2000 EXPERIMENTAL VERSION:
     "Would you say that over the past year the nation's economy has
     gotten better, stayed (all yrs. exc 1984: about) the same or gotten
     worse?"
     2000 EXPERIMENTAL VERSION:
     "Would you say that over the past year the nation's economy has gotten
     worse, stayed about the same, or gotten better?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0870 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:  27NOV05