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Harris 1984 (September) Business-Week Survey, Study No. 842112, Voters

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Now I want to ask you about some highlights of President Reagan's record in the White House. If you have to say, would you say that policy has been a failure or success. -Building up respect for the U.S. in the world by increasing defense spending.

	1) Failure
	2) Success
	3) Neither
	4) Not sure

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Failure	517	39%	39%	-.95
Success	680	51.4%	90.4%	.26
Neither	22	1.7%	92.1%	1.47
Not sure	105	7.9%	100%	2.69

Variable Comparisons

Region (I-REGION)

	East	South	Midwest	West	TOTAL
Failure	40.3% 131	31.7% 123	43.3% 154	42.7% 109	39.0% 517
Success	48.9% 159	57.2% 222	47.8% 170	50.6% 129	51.4% 680
Neither	1.2% 4	1.8% 7	2.0% 7	1.6% 4	1.7% 22
Not sure	9.5% 31	9.3% 36	7.0% 25	5.1% 13	7.9% 105
TOTAL	100.0% 325	100.0% 388	100.0% 356	100.0% 255	1324

Age (I-AGE)

	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-64	65 +	TOTAL
Failure	36.8% 56	39.9% 125	37.7% 101	41.0% 160	37.3% 75	39.0% 517
Success	58.6% 89	55.0% 172	51.1% 137	50.8% 198	41.8% 84	51.4% 680
Neither	1.3% 2	0.6% 2	3.0% 8	1.0% 4	3.0% 6	1.7% 22
Not sure	3.3% 5	4.5% 14	8.2% 22	7.2% 28	17.9% 36	7.9% 105
TOTAL	100.0% 152	100.0% 313	100.0% 268	100.0% 390	100.0% 201	1324

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Failure	35.7% 288	41.6% 148	46.7% 21	51.3% 20	57.4% 35	39.2% 512
Success	54.0% 435	51.4% 183	35.6% 16	33.3% 13	34.4% 21	51.1% 668
Neither	1.9% 15	0.8% 3	2.2% 1	0.0% 0	4.9% 3	1.7% 22
Not sure	8.4% 68	6.2% 22	15.6% 7	15.4% 6	3.3% 2	8.0% 105
TOTAL	100.0% 806	100.0% 356	100.0% 45	100.0% 39	100.0% 61	1307

Household income (I-INCOME)

	< 15,000	15,001-25k	25,001-50k	> 50,001	Not sure	TOTAL
Failure	46.8% 141	37.7% 219	38.1% 80	33.3% 51	32.9% 23	39.1% 514
Success	41.5% 125	53.9% 313	54.8% 115	58.8% 90	45.7% 32	51.3% 675
Neither	1.7% 5	1.0% 6	1.4% 3	3.9% 6	2.9% 2	1.7% 22
Not sure	10.0% 30	7.4% 43	5.7% 12	3.9% 6	18.6% 13	7.9% 104
TOTAL	100.0% 301	100.0% 581	100.0% 210	100.0% 153	100.0% 70	1315

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Failure	33.9% 210	43.6% 307	39.0% 517
Success	60.3% 374	43.5% 306	51.4% 680
Neither	1.6% 10	1.7% 12	1.7% 22
Not sure	4.2% 26	11.2% 79	7.9% 105
TOTAL	100.0% 620	100.0% 704	1324

Education (I-EDUCTION)

	Less than high school (grades 1-11)	High school graduate (grade 12)	Some college (grades 13-15)	College graduate (grade 16)	Postgraduate (grades 17 and over)	TOTAL
Failure	42.0% 58	38.6% 159	37.1% 127	39.3% 106	41.4% 67	39.0% 517
Success	37.7% 52	51.9% 214	54.4% 186	54.4% 147	50.0% 81	51.4% 680
Neither	2.9% 4	1.2% 5	1.5% 5	1.1% 3	3.1% 5	1.7% 22
Not sure	17.4% 24	8.3% 34	7.0% 24	5.2% 14	5.6% 9	7.9% 105
TOTAL	100.0% 138	100.0% 412	100.0% 342	100.0% 270	100.0% 162	1324

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Oriental/Asian or Pacific Islander	American Indian or Alaskan native	Not sure	TOTAL
Failure	37.2% 442	57.3% 55	55.6% 5	50.0% 4	42.1% 8	38.9% 514
Success	53.1% 631	32.3% 31	44.4% 4	50.0% 4	52.6% 10	51.5% 680
Neither	1.9% 22	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.7% 22
Not sure	7.9% 94	10.4% 10	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	5.3% 1	7.9% 105
TOTAL	100.0% 1189	100.0% 96	100.0% 9	100.0% 8	100.0% 19	1321