THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Do People in Government Waste Tax Money  1958-2004


                           '58  '60  '62  '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04 
 
                    A Lot   43   **   **   47   **   59   69   66   74   74   77   78   66   65   **   63   67   67   70   59   61   59   48   61 
                     Some   42   **   **   44   **   34   26   30   22   20   19   18   29   29   **   33   30   30   27   39   34   38   49   37 
            Not Very Much   10   **   **    7   **    4    4    2    1    3    2    2    2    4   **    2    2    2    2    1    4    3    3    2 
               Don't Know    4   **   **    2   **    3    1    2    2    3    2    2    3    2   **    2    1    1    1    0    1    1    0    1
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                       N  1774           1447      1343 1502 2282 2515 2865 2291 1607 1403 1920      1768 1962 2249 1769 1500 1278 1541 1311 1059  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 5A.3
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "Do you think that people in the government waste a lot of money
     we pay in taxes, waste some of it, or don't waste very much of it?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0606 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