THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Politics is Too Complicated  1952-2000


                           '52  '54  '56  '58  '60  '62  '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00 
 
                    Agree   71   **   64   **   59   **   67   69   71   73   74   72   71   72   70   **   71   **   70   66   66   65   63   73   60 
                 Disagree   28   **   36   **   41   **   32   27   29   26   26   26   27   26   28   **   29   **   21   24   27   25   28   20   32 
                  Neither    -   **    -   **    -   **    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   **    -   **    8   10    7    9   10    7    7 
      Don't Know, Depends    1   **    0   **    0   **    1    4    0    1    0    1    2    2    2   **    0   **    0    1    0    0    0    0    0
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                       N  1779      1742      1900      1558 1289 1341 1502 2694 2500 2392 2288 1404      2239      1765 1963 2246 1768 1501 1278 1540  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 5B.1
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "'Sometimes politics and government seem so complicated that a person
     like me can't really understand what's going on.'"
       

     NOTE:  
     The option 'Neither Agree Nor Disagree' was introduced in 1988
     and has affected distributions.

     This question is variable VCF0614 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