The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

Is the Government Run for the Benefit of All 1964 -2016

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  '64 '66 '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16
Few Big Interests 29
(412)		 33
(425)		 40
(528)		 50
(749)		 53
(1212)		 66
(1655)		 66
(1883)		 67
(1508)		 70
(1121)		 61
(852)		 55
(1044)		 ** 64
(1120)		 71
(1389)		 75
(1678)		 76
(1338)		 69
(1036)		 64
(812)		 61
(927)		 48
(612)		 56
(593)		 ** 69
(1447)		 ** 79
(4649)		 ** 82
(3479)
Benefit of All 64
(923)		 53
(679)		 51
(684)		 41
(611)		 38
(858)		 25
(615)		 24
(682)		 24
(550)		 21
(336)		 29
(405)		 39
(739)		 ** 31
(545)		 24
(469)		 20
(455)		 19
(340)		 27
(407)		 32
(409)		 35
(529)		 51
(645)		 40
(426)		 ** 29
(611)		 ** 19
(1127)		 ** 17
(736)
Don't Know, Depends 7
(108)		 13
(172)		 9
(124)		 9
(136)		 9
(203)		 9
(230)		 10
(274)		 9
(205)		 9
(136)		 10
(140)		 6
(115)		 ** 5
(96)		 5
(94)		 4
(94)		 4
(79)		 3
(48)		 4
(50)		 5
(73)		 2
(20)		 4
(43)		 ** 2
(43)		 ** 2
(102)		 ** 1
(26)
N 1443 1276 1336 1496 2273 2500 2839 2263 1593 1397 1898 0 1761 1952 2227 1757 1491 1271 1529 1277 1062 0 2101 0 5878 0 4241

Percentage Within Study Year
Table 5A.2.
Source: VCF0605 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset, weighted with VCF0009z
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Percent among demographic groups who responded:

Few Big Interests
Benefit of All

Question Text:

"Would you say the government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves or that it is run for the benefit of all the people?"

Note:

2012 and 2016 data are for the combined (face-to-face and internet) sample.

For 2012, the 'Don't Know/Other' category represents face-to-face Don't Know cases only (in the 2012 Web instrument, a Don't Know category was not present).

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