The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

Shouldn't Vote if Doesn't Care About Outcome 1952 -1992

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Data Table

  '52 '54 '56 '58 '60 '62 '64 '66 '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92
Agree 53
(948)		 ** 46
(794)		 ** 44
(835)		 ** ** ** ** ** 45
(1218)		 ** 46
(1292)		 48
(1104)		 41
(638)		 ** 57
(1276)		 ** 50
(889)		 ** 51
(1138)
Disagree 45
(807)		 ** 53
(915)		 ** 55
(1043)		 ** ** ** ** ** 53
(1437)		 ** 53
(1503)		 49
(1116)		 58
(905)		 ** 42
(953)		 ** 37
(655)		 ** 41
(927)
Neither - ** - ** - ** ** ** ** ** - ** - - - ** - ** 12
(220)		 ** 8
(171)
Don't Know, Depends 1
(20)		 ** 2
(27)		 ** 2
(30)		 ** ** ** ** ** 1
(31)		 ** 2
(43)		 3
(70)		 1
(16)		 ** 1
(14)		 ** 0
(4)		 ** 1
(13)
N 1775 0 1736 0 1908 0 0 0 0 0 2686 0 2838 2290 1559 0 2243 0 1768 0 2249

Percentage Within Study Year
Table 5D.1.
Source: VCF0616 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset, weighted with VCF0009z

Percent among demographic groups who responded:

Agree
Disagree
Neither

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

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