THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Approval of Performance of Congress  1980-2004


                           '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04 
 
                  Approve   34   34   53   44   52   36   28   32   46   48   52   64   46 
               Disapprove   48   49   35   38   34   55   63   60   47   43   33   34   40 
               Don't Know   18   17   12   18   14    9    9    8    8    9   15    2   14
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                       N  1401 1417 1926 2169 1769 1972 2243 1789 1700 1269 1796 1458 1211  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 5C.4
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "Do you approve or disapprove of the way the U.S. Congress has
     been handling its job?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0992 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