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Trust, Distrust, Confidence, Lack of Confidence: New Evidence of Public Opinion toward Government and Institutions from 2002 (2002)
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@MISC{Cook02trust,distrust,,
author = {Timothy E. Cook and Paul Gronke},
title = {Trust, Distrust, Confidence, Lack of Confidence: New Evidence of Public Opinion toward Government and Institutions from 2002},
year = {2002}
}
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Abstract
this paper, and are analyzed in separate essays (Gronke and Cook 2002; Cook and Gronke 2001). We added political indicators (partisanship, ideology, assessments of national and personal financial situation) and demographics (education, income, race, etc). The questionnaire is reported in the Appendix. Our survey was administered by Louisiana State University Public Policy Research Lab. The sample was drawn using RDD sampling. We interviewed 1059 adults between March 11 and April 30 of 2002. The survey was conducted in a way to maximize the number of completed interviews in a given period of time -- in this case from March 11 to April 30 -- with the understanding that no further calls would be made thereafter. As a result, we did contact many individuals who agreed to be interviewed if they could be contacted at a later time, but then did not re-telephone them as we had surpassed the target number of respondents. This approach tends to make the response rate artificially low if we include those people as outside of the sample. Moreover, following AAPOR guidelines, we assumed that a similar proportion of the numbers dialed that were busy or did not answer were ineligible (e.g, business numbers, disconnected numbers, fax machines) as in the remainder of the sample, and estimated the number of eligible numbers that we did not reach by that proportion. By that formula, our response rate was 16%. Of those we did reach on the phone, the cooperation rate was 42%. Although ideally, we would have had higher cooperation and response rates, we are confident that the data are of sufficiently high quality that we can proceed with the analysis. The levels we found of approval of President Bush and of Congress, and evaluations of whether the country is on the "right track", were very s...
