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The only example
that comes to mind is Babbie'sThe Basics of Social Research, 2/e. On
pp. 246-247, Babbie cites a 1989 study by Kenneth Rasinski who found that that
63 percent of the respondents said too little money was being spent on
"assistance to the poor" compared with only 23 percent who felt that we were
spending too little on "welfare."
Unfortunately, I
don't know if Rasinski's study has been updated.
niki
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Nijole (Niki) Benokraitis,
Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
University of Baltimore, 1420 N. Charles
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Subject: TEACHSOC: Cash assistance to the
poor vs. welfare
Colleagues,
I will be discussing survey design with
my Methods students next week,
and to illustrate the importance of
question wording, I'd like to show
them the difference in public support
of "cash assistance to the poor"
rather than public support of
"welfare." I know this example is used
very frequently, but I can't
seem to find actual analysis of these two
questions--what percentage of
the public supports cash assistance
compared to the percentage who support
welfare? Can anyone point me to
some data that shows these
differences?
Thanks,
Teresa
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Sonoma State
University, Stevenson Hall 2084-N
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