Which of the following measures, if any, are you taking in response to the coronavirus/COVID-19? (October 2020)
category | Total |
---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 87% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 87% |
Staying away from large groups | 83% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 74% |
Avoiding touching your face | 68% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 95% | 82% | 81% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 98% | 85% | 78% |
Staying away from large groups | 95% | 80% | 73% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 94% | 77% | 57% |
Avoiding touching your face | 83% | 70% | 55% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 92% | 95% | 96% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 98% | 97% | 98% |
Staying away from large groups | 93% | 94% | 96% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 92% | 91% | 95% |
Avoiding touching your face | 78% | 83% | 86% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 77% | 88% | 81% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 71% | 87% | 79% |
Staying away from large groups | 73% | 85% | 70% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 54% | 61% | 56% |
Avoiding touching your face | 51% | 73% | 51% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 91% | 93% | 80% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 93% | 96% | 78% |
Staying away from large groups | 93% | 92% | 71% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 93% | 88% | 55% |
Avoiding touching your face | 79% | 78% | 56% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 88% | 94% | 91% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 92% | 95% | 89% |
Staying away from large groups | 90% | 96% | 92% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 90% | 94% | 93% |
Avoiding touching your face | 81% | 79% | 77% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 83% | 80% | 79% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 83% | 79% | 74% |
Staying away from large groups | 72% | 79% | 64% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 55% | 59% | 51% |
Avoiding touching your face | 63% | 61% | 49% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 83% | 92% | 94% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 83% | 89% | 96% |
Staying away from large groups | 80% | 82% | 93% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 65% | 90% | 89% |
Avoiding touching your face | 60% | 77% | 84% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 82% | 91% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 83% | 90% |
Staying away from large groups | 78% | 88% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 67% | 80% |
Avoiding touching your face | 63% | 73% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 92% | 86% | 79% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 93% | 88% | 77% |
Staying away from large groups | 87% | 84% | 74% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 84% | 74% | 60% |
Avoiding touching your face | 76% | 68% | 59% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 87% | 85% | 84% | 93% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 86% | 85% | 86% | 91% |
Staying away from large groups | 82% | 85% | 80% | 87% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 83% | 79% | 69% | 70% |
Avoiding touching your face | 66% | 72% | 67% | 67% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 83% | 90% | 87% | 82% | 88% | 83% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 94% | 90% | 84% | 83% | 87% | 89% |
Staying away from large groups | 94% | 90% | 79% | 82% | 80% | 80% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 94% | 83% | 71% | 72% | 72% | 63% |
Avoiding touching your face | 82% | 76% | 66% | 62% | 66% | 65% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Washing hands more frequently | 86% | 92% | 78% | 88% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 86% | 87% | 83% | 92% |
Staying away from large groups | 80% | 82% | 83% | 90% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 67% | 81% | 73% | 86% |
Avoiding touching your face | 66% | 72% | 66% | 73% |
Category | The 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. |
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Washing hands more frequently | 86% | 86% | 89% | 88% |
Wearing a mask when in close contact with people outside your household | 85% | 85% | 92% | 91% |
Staying away from large groups | 78% | 82% | 91% | 85% |
Avoiding other people as much as possible | 62% | 74% | 86% | 86% |
Avoiding touching your face | 65% | 66% | 73% | 76% |