THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Shouldn't Vote if Doesn't Care About Outcome  1952-1992


                           '52  '54  '56  '58  '60  '62  '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92 
 
                    Agree   53   **   46   **   44   **   **   **   **   **   45   **   46   48   41   **   57   **   50   **   51 
                 Disagree   45   **   53   **   55   **   **   **   **   **   54   **   53   49   58   **   42   **   37   **   41 
                  Neither    -   **    -   **    -   **   **   **   **   **    -   **    -    -    -   **    -   **   12   **    8 
      Don't Know, Depends    1   **    2   **    2   **   **   **   **   **    1   **    2    3    1   **    1   **    0   **    1
                          ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ 

                       N  1775      1736      1908                          2686      2838 2290 1559      2243      1768      2248  



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



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "'If a person doesn't (1988: if people don't) care how an election
     comes out he (1980,1984: then that person; 1988,1992: they) shouldn't
     vote in it.'"
       

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

     This question is variable VCF0616 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