THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Condition of Nation's Economy Over the Next Year  1980-2008


                           '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04  '08 
 
               Get Better   30   39   29   21   23   11   32   29   25   24   23   **   37   28 
      Stay About the Same   40   40   51   56   55   31   49   55   62   57   58   **   46   41 
                Get Worse   31   21   20   23   22   58   19   16   13   19   18   **   17   31
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                       N  1424 1313 2040 2045 1883 1895 2348 1733 1685 1241 1740      1160 1164  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 4E.2
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "What about the next 12 months (1980,1982: or so)?"
     ALL YEARS EXC. 2000:
     "Do you expect the (1986,1988,1992: national) economy to get better,
     get worse, or stay about the same?"
     2000 STANDARD VERSION:
     "Do you expect the economy, in the country as a whole, to get better,
     stay about the same, or get worse?"
     2000 EXPERIMENTAL VERSON:
     "Do you expect the economy, in the country as a whole, to get worse,
     stay about the same, or get better?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0872 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