Interest in Current Campaign 1952 -2016
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| '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 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not Much Interested | 29 (510) |
** | 31 (539) |
41 (736) |
25 (482) |
26 (338) |
25 (393) |
29 (375) |
21 (321) |
24 (358) |
27 (740) |
** | 21 (606) |
34 (778) |
26 (407) |
30 (422) |
25 (558) |
33 (725) |
25 (509) |
33 (657) |
17 (430) |
27 (472) |
25 (433) |
31 (399) |
24 (431) |
27 (405) |
17 (200) |
** | 16 (188) |
** | 17 (981) |
** | 14 (610) |
| Somewhat Interested | 34 (605) |
** | 40 (694) |
33 (595) |
37 (715) |
38 (489) |
37 (573) |
40 (514) |
40 (624) |
43 (642) |
41 (1110) |
** | 42 (1207) |
45 (1025) |
44 (692) |
44 (626) |
47 (1054) |
44 (959) |
47 (960) |
46 (900) |
44 (1088) |
47 (831) |
50 (858) |
48 (618) |
50 (900) |
53 (800) |
44 (529) |
** | 41 (492) |
** | 42 (2508) |
** | 37 (1561) |
| Very Much Interested | 37 (656) |
** | 30 (520) |
27 (481) |
38 (722) |
36 (467) |
38 (598) |
30 (383) |
39 (601) |
34 (506) |
31 (849) |
** | 37 (1043) |
22 (496) |
30 (466) |
26 (367) |
28 (638) |
22 (488) |
28 (567) |
21 (421) |
39 (960) |
27 (475) |
25 (424) |
21 (263) |
26 (477) |
20 (301) |
40 (482) |
** | 44 (529) |
** | 41 (2422) |
** | 49 (2097) |
| Don't Know | 0 (5) |
** | 0 (1) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (1) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
** | 0 (1) |
0 (1) |
0 (2) |
0 (0) |
0 (1) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (1) |
0 (0) |
** | 0 (0) |
** | 0 (0) |
** | - |
| N | 1776 | 0 | 1754 | 1812 | 1919 | 1294 | 1565 | 1272 | 1546 | 1506 | 2699 | 0 | 2857 | 2300 | 1567 | 1415 | 2251 | 2172 | 2036 | 1978 | 2478 | 1778 | 1715 | 1280 | 1808 | 1507 | 1211 | 0 | 1209 | 0 | 5911 | 0 | 4268 |
Percentage Within Study Year
Table 6D.6.
Source: VCF0310 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset,
weighted with VCF0009z
Link to see data by mode (2012, 2016)
Percent among demographic groups who responded:
Not Much Interested
Somewhat Interested
Very Much Interested
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?"
Note:
2012 and 2016 data are for the combined (face-to-face and internet) sample.