Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for April 27, 2023
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April 27, 2023: Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters have had to cut back on their household spending over the past couple of years. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 21% have not.
The survey also found that 92% believe it is important to reduce government spending and balance the federal budget, including 62% who believe it is Very Important. Sixty-seven (67%) percent favor reducing the growth of federal spending to 1% a year for 10 years, and 64% support requiring every federal agency to reduce its total payroll by 1% a year for 10 years.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on April 13-14, 2023. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Survey Questions
Over the past couple of years, have you had to cut back on your household spending?
- 78%-Yes
- 21%-No
- 1%-Not sure
How important is it to reduce government spending and balance the federal budget?
- 62%-Very important
- 30%-Somewhat important
- 4%-Not very important
- 1%-Not at all important
- 3%-Not sure
Please let me know if you favor or oppose each of the following proposals:
Reducing the growth of federal spending to 1% a year for 10 years
- 25%-Strongly favor
- 42%-Somewhat favor
- 13%-Somewhat oppose
- 3%-Strongly oppose
- 16%-Not sure
Requiring every federal agency to reduce its total payroll by 1% a year for 10 years
- 33%-Strongly favor
- 31%-Somewhat favor
- 13%-Somewhat oppose
- 9%-Strongly oppose
- 15% -Not sure
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