A survey conducted in July 2025 found that the most important issue for ***percent of Americans was inflation and prices. A further ***percent of respondents were most concerned about jobs and the economy.

The state of healthcare was the most urgent issue for the Polish government to deal with according to ** percent of respondents in 2020. Next on the list were the financial situation of pensioners and environmental pollution, with ** percent of respondents each.

Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science (SETUPS) for American Politics are computer-related modules designed for use in teaching introductory courses in American government and politics. The modules are intended to demonstrate the process of examining evidence and reaching conclusions and to stimulate students to independent, critical thinking and a deeper understanding of substantive content. They enable students with no previous training to make use of the computer to analyze data on political behavior or to see the results of policy decisions by use of a simulation model. The SETUPS: AMERICAN POLITICS modules were developed by a group of political scientists with experience in teaching introductory American government courses who were brought together in a workshop supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation in the summer of 1974. The American Political Science Association administered the grant, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research was host to the workshop and provided data for most of the SETUPS. The modules were tested and evaluated during the 1974-1975 academic year by students and faculty in 155 classes at 69 universities and colleges. Appropriate revisions were made based upon this experience. This collection comprises 15 separate modules: (1) Political Socialization Across the Generations, (2) Political Participation, (3) Voting Behavior, The 1980 Election, (4) Elections and the Mass Media, (5) The Supreme Court in American Politics, Court Decisions, (6) The Supreme Court in American Politics, Police Interrogations, (7) The Dynamics of Political Budgeting, A Public Policy Simulation, State Expenditures, (8) The Dynamics of Political Budgeting, A Public Policy Simulation, SIMSTATE Simulation, (9) The Dynamics of Political Budgeting, A Public Policy Simulation, SIMSTATE II Simulation, (10) Fear of Crime, (11) Presidential Popularity in America, Presidential Popularity, (12) Presidential Popularity in America, Advanced Analyses, (13) Campaign '80, The Public and the Presidential Selection Process, (14) Voting Behavior, The 1976 Election, and (15) Policy Responsiveness and Fiscal Strain in 51 American Communities. Parts 8 and 9 are FORTRAN IV program SIMSTATE sourcedecks intended to simulate the interaction of state policies. Variables in the various modules provide information on respondents' level of political involvement and knowledge of political issues, general political attitudes and beliefs, news media exposure and usage, voting behavior (Parts 1, 2, and 3), and sectional biases (15). Other items provide information on respondents' views of government, politics, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter as presidents, best form of government, government spending (Part 3), local police, the Supreme Court (Parts 4 and 15), the economy, and domestic and foreign affairs. Additional items probed respondents' opinions of prayer in school, abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment Law, nuclear energy, and the most important national problem and the political party most suitable to handle it (Part 3). Also included are items on votes of Supreme Court judges (Part 5), arrest of criminal suspects and their treatment by law enforcement agencies (Part 6), federal government expenditures and budgeting (Part 7), respondents' feelings of safety at home, neighborhood crime rate, frequency of various kinds of criminal victimization, the personal characteristics of the targets of those crimes (Part 10), respondents' opinions of and choice of party presidential candidates nominees (Part 13), voter turnout for city elections (15), urban unrest, and population growth rate. Demographic items specify age, sex, race, marital status, education, occupation, income, social class identification, religion, political party affiliation, and union membership.

These polls are part of a continuing series of surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other social and political issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President Ronald Reagan and his handling of the presidency, foreign policy, and the economy. Each file contains a set of unique questions pertaining to broader social issues, such as childrearing and victimization. These national surveys were administered by telephone to respondents selected from eligible household members. In Part 1, January 1981, respondents were asked for their views on President Reagan's likely performance as President with respect to economic and foreign affairs, the release of hostages from Iran, the federal budget, and whether funding should be increased or decreased for certain federal programs. Questions about busing to achieve school integration were also included. For Part 2, April 1981, respondents were asked to evaluate President Reagan's current and future performances in economic and foreign affairs. They were also asked about tax cuts, the federal budget, women's rights, El Salvador, Poland, handguns, and Japanese cars. For Part 3, June 1981, respondents were asked to evaluate Reagan's performance as president, and to comment on their general life satisfaction, their confidence in government institutions, their views on crime, whether they voted in the 1980 presidential election, Social Security revisions, and several issues regarding foreign affairs, including military rule in Poland. In Part 4, June 1981, Social Security, respondents gave their views on the Social Security system and how proposed changes affected them. Respondents were also queried for their views on childrearing, punishment of juvenile crime, and who should have custody of children in divorce situations. For Part 5, September 1981, respondents evaluated President Reagan's performance in economic and foreign affairs, and also provided their opinions on environment issues and on various economic proposals, including the Reagan administration's proposed tax cut.

March 1995: This survey was conducted by the Los Angeles Times from March 15-19, 1995 on a National sample of 1,007 registered voters. Major topics covered: Clinton job performance; party preference; US economy; Congress; Clinton in the 1996 election; abortion; Republican party politics; race relations; discrimination; affirmative action; Vietnam

October 1995: Right/wrong track; Bill Clinton job performance; party best able; Clinton vs. Congress; confidence in Congress; trusting government; government spending; economy; personal finances; political groups; favorability of political parties; two-party system; Hillary Rodham Clinton; welfare; environment; race relations; marriage; homosexual relations; Roe v. Wade; prayer in schools; moral climate; intolerance; immigration; United Nations; foreign policy; crime; assault weapons ban; own a handgun; on-line computer services; 1996 elections; third party; 1992 election; current employment; born again; the Bible.

February 1997: Direction of country; Bill Clinton job performance; congressional job performance; Clinton vs Republicans in Congress; issue with top priority; economy; Clinton impression; Newt Gingrich impression; State of the Union address; Clinton's proposals; balancing the budget; social security plans; financial health of the Medicare system; proposals to change Medicare; welfare reform bill; Clinton's ethics; Gingrich step down; Gingrich fine; Gingrich's punishment; Democratic National Committee; campaign finance reform bill; Clinton selling presidency; O.J. Simpson verdict; government medical insurance.

Please Note: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at https://doi.org/10.25940/ROPER-31093058 and https://doi.org/10.25940/ROPER-31093074. We highly recommend using the Roper Center version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.

Rising prices, inflation, and the increasing cost of living were the issues that residents of the Visegrád countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) considered the most important for their countries in 2025. Furthermore, healthcare was one of the most pressing national issues in Hungary, named by ** percent of the respondents.

These data are being released as a preliminary version to facilitate early access to the study for research purposes. This collection has not been fully processed by ICPSR at this time, and data are released in the format provided by the principal investigators. As the study is processed and given enhanced features by ICPSR in the future, users will be able to download the updated versions of the study. Please report any data errors or problems to user support, and we will work with you to resolve any data-related issues. The American National Election Study (ANES): 2016 Pilot Study sought to test new instrumentation under consideration for potential inclusion in the ANES 2016 Time Series Study, as well as future ANES studies. Much of the content is based on proposals from the ANES user community submitted through the Online Commons page, found on the ANES home page. The survey included questions about preferences in the presidential primary, stereotyping, the economy, discrimination, race and racial consciousness, police use of force, and numerous policy issues, such as immigration law, health insurance, and federal spending. It was conducted on the Internet using the YouGov panel, an international market research firm that administers polls that collect information about politics, public affairs, products, brands, as well as other topics of general interest.

The survey shows the public approval towards president Obama regarding important national issues. The poll was done on April 5 to 8, 2012. 44 percent of the respondents approved his handling with the topic economy, while 54 percent disapproved and 2 percent had no opinion.

The national agenda—the subset of issues which national public opinion and policymakers regard as the country’s political priorities at the moment—changes over time and reflects a complex interaction between the public and political leaders, each influencing and responding to the other. For an issue to resonate on the national agenda, at least in matters of domestic affairs, public concern about objective conditions may serve as a condition of constraint and potential receptivity. To explore the dynamics of national agenda setting, I focus on the issue of national health care reform during the 1980s and 1990s—an issue that rose to the national agenda suddenly and dominated national politics for three years after a long period of quiescence during the previous decade. A number of studies have examined the politics of health care reform, but none systematically address the process by which health care reform emerged as a national priority in the first place. I explain how public concern about objective real-world conditions provided an important foundation for the issue’s rise to the na tional agenda but itself was insufficient during the decade preceding the issue’s rise. Public concern about health care problems, which were understood mainly as personal, not political problems, existed well before the issue’s sudden rise in 1991. Rather than educating the public through Downsian “alarmed discovery” of new information about health care problems, political leaders channeled the public’s existing concern about objective conditions and persuaded the public to attach new, distinctly political relevance to information it already possessed. Leadership built upon existing objective public concern about objective conditions, rather than building up public concern in any significant way. Leadership transformed the political character of health care by spurring the public to consider their personal experiences with health care, particularly their negative experiences, as politically relevant without changing its opinion about underlying conditions.

This dataset was designed to provide information on the personal and political backgrounds, political attitudes, and relevant behavior of party leaders. The data pertain to Democratic and Republican party elites holding office during the election year of 1980 and include County and State Chairs, members of the Democratic and Republican National Committees, and delegates to the National Conventions. These data focus on the "representativeness" of the party elites on a variety of dimensions and also permit a comparison of party leaders from the local, state, and national organizational levels. Other issues explored include the party reform era, the effects of the growing body of party law, and the nationalization of the political parties. Specific variables include characterization of respondent's political beliefs on the liberal-conservative scale, length of time the respondent had been active in the party, and the respondent's opinions on minorities in the party, party unity, national- and local-level party strength, and party loyalty. Respondents were also queried on attitudes toward important national problems, defense spending, and inflation. In addition, their opinions were elicited on controversial provisions in their parties' charters and on the directions their parties should take in the future. Demographic characteristics are supplied as well.

This survey focuses on America's ratings of President Clinton, Robert Dole and Ross Perot, presidential pairings, party loyalty, divided government, health care Wall Street, whish have it come true, Internet . Variables include rating two most important issues in the 1996 presidential election, candidates, presidential pairing, candidates issues, party loyalty, divided government, health care, Wall St., wish come true, Internet use and connection, use of World Wide Web. planning.

This study was conducted in two waves, before and after the 1944 presidential election. Of the 2,564 respondents surveyed in the first wave, 2,030 were reinterviewed after the election. Respondents were queried about their party identification, opinions on postwar issues, voting intentions and expectations about the outcome of the election, sources of political information, the importance they attached to the election, and who they believed to be candidates Franklin Roosevelt's and Thomas Dewey's supporters. In addition, open-ended questions tapped areas the respondents considered to be major problems, campaign issues that influenced their vote, party differences, evaluations of major presidential candidates, and the candidates' ability to deal with specified problems. Post-election questions (V79-V123) elicited the respondents' opinions on post-war political and economic issues, the electoral campaign, and Roosevelt's reelection. Variables also probed the respondents' actual voting behavior and the reasons for their choice. Demographic data include sex, race, age group, and level of education, as well as ethnic and religious affiliations.

This statistic shows the results of a survey on the most important national issues in Sweden in 2017 according to respondents. ** percent of the respondents stated the level of immigration to be one of the most important problems facing Sweden, while only * percent stated "Sweden's infrastructure – roads, railways, bridges, public buildings, flood defences etc" to one of the most important national issues.

The current high cost of living was seen as the most important issue facing the European Union at the beginning of 2023. Nearly one in three had this as their most important issue. The current international situation was seen as the second most pressing issue, followed by energy supply.

This study focuses on various national issues. Topics addressed include issues and ratings, presidential candidates, health care politics, foreign trade, industry images, poverty and welfare, and factuals. Demographic data include household composition, sex, age, education, house ownership, presence of handicapped in the household, ideology, income, Hispanic origin, race and number of telephone lines in the household.

This poll, the first of two fielded April 2012, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked how well Barack Obama was handling the presidency, terrorism, the economy, the war in Afghanistan, the housing market, and the issue of gasoline prices. Opinions were collected on whether respondents thought the country was headed in the right direction, the most important problem facing the nation, whether Congress was performing their job well, and the national economy. Respondents were also queried on their opinions of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, as well as whether either of the two presidential candidates would be able to bring real change to Washington, whether they would be able to make the right decisions on various issues, and whether they would be an effective military leader. Additional topics included economic concerns, the suspension of Rick Santorum's presidential campaign, women's health issues, the future of the next generation of Americans, gasoline prices, the home mortgage crisis, federal income tax policies and the capital gains tax policy, the John Edwards trial, and the college education of the respondent's child. Finally, respondents were asked whether they voted in the 2008 presidential election and who they voted for, whether they supported the Tea Party movement, whether they usually vote Democratic or Republican, whether they planned to vote in a 2012 primary or caucus, how much attention they have paid to the 2012 presidential campaign, and whether they were registered to vote. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, social class, marital status, household makeup, education level, household income, employment status, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians.

This study represents one component of a five-nation comparative data collection effort undertaken in Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Spain, and the United States during the early 1990s. The data were collected to study political communication and voting behavior during an election campaign. While the Main Respondent Data (Part 1) provide the central database, these data are supplemented by other data sources. The data collection combines three related surveys: a survey of 1,318 main respondents (Part 1), a survey of 271 spouses of the main respondents (Part 2), and a survey of 841 non-spouse discussion partners of the main respondents (Part 3). Part 4 supplies the text of open-ended question responses given by respondents to all three surveys. Part 5 provides information coded from articles in major local newspapers on issues dealing with the 1992 election campaign. Topics of investigation in this study concerned factors that influenced respondents' level of information about politics and public affairs, political awareness, and voting behavior, such as the kinds of newspapers and magazines respondents read, what national network news they watched, and whether they watched talk shows. Additional questions addressed candidate evaluations, general attitudes toward public offices and election campaigns, and participation in special interest groups, including political parties. The study also queried respondents about their feelings on topics such as affirmative action, foreign imports, using military force to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the budget deficit, medical insurance, abortion, minority aid, and the environment. Demographic characteristics of respondents include educational level, occupational status, income level, age, gender, race and ethnicity, marital status, religious preference, group affiliation, and social status.

This statistic depicts the percentage of U.S. Generation Z respondents compared to adults overall that felt stressed about select issues they have seen in the national news as of 2018. According to the data, 75 percent of Gen. Z respondents felt stressed about mass shootings in the U.S. Comparatively, just 62 percent of adults overall stated that they were stressed about mass shootings in the U.S.

This study is the third in a series of national household surveys to examine current attitudes towards drugs and drug problems, usage of drugs, and to assess changes in these attitudes and usage over the period 1985-1991. The two earlier studies were Social Issues in Australia, 1985 and the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse social issues survey, 1988. The questionnaire asked respondents about their degree of concern about various social issues and drugs. A sealed section of the questionnaire allowed respondents to indicate their usage of each drug without the interviewer being aware of their answers. The drugs covered were: amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine/crack, hallucinogens, heroin, inhalants, marijuana/hash, tobacco/cigarettes, tranquillisers, painkillers/analgesics, and ecstasy/designer drugs. Respondents were also asked for opinions about the availability of drug information and services, the adequacy of government efforts to deal with drug problems, the impact of the Drug Offensive campaign, and the distribution of expenditure for reducing drug abuse. Questions about family and personal involvement in drug issues were also included. Background variables included geographical location, sex, age-group, birthplace, employment status and occupation of self and spouse, education status, and the number and ages of other people in the household.

The fifth round of the Global Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Policy Survey was conducted in 2018-2019. For this survey, the questionnaire was administered online to each member state via World Health Organization (WHO) regional offices. Each WHO country office was asked to coordinate completion of the survey with the Ministry of Health and other UN partners. Respondents from each country shared original source documents including national policies, strategies, laws, guidelines, reports that are relevant to the areas of sexual and reproductive health, maternal and newborn health, child health, adolescent health, gender-based violence and cross-cutting issues. Cross cutting issues include policies, guidelines and legislation for human right to healthcare, financial protection, and quality of care.The WHO cross-cutting issues page can be found here, and the WHO data can also be accessed on their data portal page, here. Adolescent Health Policy data, provided by the WHO, show the below data attributes for countries that have an International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) membership and have completed the required surveys. Academia typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body Adolescents/young people typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body Civil society typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body Donors typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body Engagement of civil society in review of national RMNCAH programmes H6 partnership organizations typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body Law requiring birth registration Law requiring death registration Ministry of Health typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body National human rights institution considers RMNCAH issues National law guarantees universal access to primary health care National policy on Quality of Care for health services exists National policy on Quality of Care includes Adolescent health National policy on Quality of Care includes Maternal health National policy on Quality of Care includes Newborn health National policy on Quality of Care includes Sexual and reproductive health National policy to ensure engagement of civil society organisation representatives in national level planning of RMNCAH programmes National RMNCAH coordinating body Non-health government sectors typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body Private sector typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body Professional associations typically included in the RMNCAH coordinating body This data set is just one of the many datasets on the Global Midwives Hub, a digital resource with open data, maps, and mapping applications (among other things), to support advocacy for improved maternal and newborn services, supported by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), UNFPA, WHO, and Direct Relief.