THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Interest in Current Campaign  1952-2004


                           '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 
 
      Not Much Interested   29   **   31   41   25   26   25   29   21   24   27   **   21   34   26   30   25   33   25   33   17   27   25   31   24   27   17 
      Somewhat Interested   34   **   40   33   37   38   37   40   40   43   41   **   42   45   44   44   47   44   47   46   44   47   50   48   50   53   44 
     Very Much Interested   37   **   30   27   38   36   38   30   39   34   31   **   37   22   30   26   28   22   28   21   39   27   25   21   26   20   40 
               Don't Know    0   **    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   **    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
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                       N  1776      1754 1812 1919 1294 1565 1272 1546 1506 2699      2857 2300 1567 1415 2251 2172 2036 1978 2478 1777 1714 1281 1807 1507 1212  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 6D.6
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "Some people don't pay much attention to the political campaigns.
     How about you, would you say that you have been/were very much
     interested, somewhat interested, or not much interested in following
     the political campaigns (so far) this year?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0310 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