Rating the Federal Government's Response to Coronavirus: Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment (April 2020)

Rating the Federal Government's Response to Coronavirus: Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment (April 2020)

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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment."
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Excellent20%
Good26%
Only fair13%
Poor37%
Don't know/No opinion5%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents. Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
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CategoryDemocratIndependentRepublican
Excellent6%14%33%
Good11%14%40%
Only fair13%20%12%
Poor68%39%10%
Don't know/No opinion2%14%4%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
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CategoryLean DemocratNot very strong DemocratStrong Democrat
Excellent0%9%8%
Good6%16%11%
Only fair10%22%11%
Poor83%51%67%
Don't know/No opinion1%1%3%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
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CategoryLean RepublicanNot very strong RepublicanStrong Republican
Excellent29%23%39%
Good43%31%42%
Only fair15%21%7%
Poor9%21%7%
Don't know/No opinion4%4%5%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
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CategoryLiberalsModeratesConservatives
Excellent5%11%34%
Good7%22%39%
Only fair11%16%14%
Poor76%41%9%
Don't know/No opinion1%10%4%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
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CategoryLean liberalSomewhat liberalExtremely liberal
Excellent2%3%9%
Good11%3%7%
Only fair12%16%3%
Poor72%77%79%
Don't know/No opinion3%0%1%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
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CategoryLean conservativeSomewhat conservativeExtremely conservative
Excellent16%26%48%
Good42%43%33%
Only fair21%16%8%
Poor17%10%6%
Don't know/No opinion4%4%4%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Race is calculated according to the race variable.
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CategoryWhiteBlackHispanic
Excellent23%14%14%
Good26%24%23%
Only fair12%12%15%
Poor35%42%39%
Don't know/No opinion3%7%8%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
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CategoryMaleFemale
Excellent23%17%
Good25%26%
Only fair11%15%
Poor38%36%
Don't know/No opinion3%6%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Community type is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
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CategoryUrbanSuburbanRural
Excellent22%17%24%
Good19%27%32%
Only fair13%14%12%
Poor41%39%25%
Don't know/No opinion5%3%7%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Age is calculated according to the AGEG variable.
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Category18-2930-4445-6465+
Excellent12%17%21%27%
Good20%20%30%29%
Only fair21%15%10%10%
Poor39%40%35%34%
Don't know/No opinion8%7%3%1%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Education is calculated according to the EDUC variable.
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CategoryNo HSHigh school graduateSome college2-year4-yearPost-grad
Excellent18%20%17%30%17%20%
Good47%26%28%25%25%18%
Only fair0%17%14%10%15%8%
Poor30%30%36%31%41%51%
Don't know/No opinion5%8%6%4%2%3%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Religiosity is calculated according to the IMPORT variable.
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CategoryExtremely importantSomewhat importantNot very importantNot at all important
Excellent29%16%5%12%
Good30%31%19%13%
Only fair14%15%14%8%
Poor23%34%61%62%
Don't know/No opinion5%5%0%6%
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    Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus/COVID-19 in the following areas? Ensuring healthcare workers have necessary equipment." Fundamentalism is calculated according to the LITERAL variable.
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CategoryThe Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word.The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word.The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God.Don't know.
Excellent32%19%5%18%
Good32%28%13%20%
Only fair13%15%11%9%
Poor17%33%67%46%
Don't know/No opinion5%5%3%7%

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