THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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People Don't Have a Say in What the Government Does  1952-2008


                           '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  '02  '04  '08 
 
                    Agree   31   **   28   **   27   **   29   34   41   36   40   40   41   45   39   45   32   **   41   54   36   56   53   42   41   29   43   49 
                 Disagree   68   **   71   **   72   **   70   60   58   64   59   57   56   53   59   52   68   **   50   34   57   34   38   46   50   57   45   40 
                  Neither    -   **    -   **    -   **    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   **    9   11    6   10    9   12    9   14   12   10 
      Don't Know, Depends    1   **    1   **    1   **    1    6    0    1    1    3    3    2    2    3    0   **    1    1    1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
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                       N  1769      1752      1922      1564 1290 1337 1504 2693 2519 2394 2291 1403 1402 2234      1765 1963 2247 1767 1712 1276 1541 1317 1061 1044  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 5B.2
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "'People like me don't have any say about what the government does.'"
       

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

     This question is variable VCF0613 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