On 31 Oct 2002 at 6:55, Brenda wrote: > On 31 Oct 2002 at 7:03, Deb Messling wrote: > > > Brenda, I'm curious, what's the source of this figure? > > > > National Election Studies - http://www.umich.edu/~nes/ > >
Let me clarify something. I original found this number in a student project by surfing the web. You'll find it here: http://149.43.80.142/cs100homeF01/delbert/webpage/Group_Project.html Thinking that one might find the results suspect because it is a student project and because the data at NES is raw, I emailed an old college classmate of mine who has done research at the Kennedy School. He confirmed the number was about right (might in fact be low) and talked about some unpublished work that affirms it. Because the work is unpublished, I can't cite it. OK....probably more than you wanted to read. BTW - I don't see anything really surprising by this number when you consider that nearly 80% of U.S. households have a total income of less than $75,000 per year and the median household income in 2001 was just over $42,000. B ------------------------------ Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
