Audience Interest By Question
| How interested are you in news reports on the following topics? | Very Interested |
Somewhat Interested |
Not Too Interested | Not At All Interested | Don't Know/ Refused | |||
| 1 | Issues and activities in local government and politics | 34 | 46 | 8 | 11 | 1 | ||
| 2 | Issues and activities in state government and politics | 29 | 48 | 11 | 10 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Issues and activities in national government and politics | 36 | 43 | 9 | 11 | 1 | ||
| 4 | What can be done to improve the performance of local schools | 62 | 30 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 5 | What can be done to reduce health care costs | 63 | 28 | 4 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 6 | What can be done to ensure that public places are safe from terrorism | 66 | 28 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 7 | What government can do to improve the performance of local schools | 59 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 8 | What government can do to reduce health care costs | 64 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 9 | What government can do to ensure that public places are safe from terrorism | 67 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 10 | What ideas political candidates have to improve the performance of local schools | 55 | 32 | 6 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 11 | What ideas political candidates have to reduce health care costs | 53 | 36 | 6 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 12 | What ideas political candidates have to ensure that public places are safe from terrorism | 60 | 31 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
Methodology
Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,005 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period May 6-16, 2002. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. For items on Form A (questions 1-3; N=249), Form B (questions 4-6; N=256), Form C (questions 7-9; N=258) or Form D (questions 10-12; N=239) the sampling error is plus or minus 7 percentage points.
