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Nearly eight in ten say the people they care about value voting

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A September 2023 Verasight survey finds that roughly three-quarters of Americans (77%) say the people they care about consider voting important, including 55% who see it as very important and 23% who see it as somewhat important.

About one-in-nine (11%) are unsure what those people think. Smaller shares say the people close to them view voting as not that important (7%) or not at all important (4%), and about 1% say those people disapprove of voting.

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Nearly eight in ten say the people they care about value voting.

Do the people that you care about, like your friends and family, think that voting in elections is important or unimportant, or do they disapprove of voting?

  • They think voting is very important 54.6%
  • They think voting is somewhat important 22.7%
  • I don't know what they think 11.0%
  • They think voting is not that important 6.7%
  • They think voting is not at all important 3.9%
  • They strongly disapprove of voting 0.6%
  • They disapprove of voting 0.5%

2023 · base n 2,000 · +/- 2.3%

APSA Omnibus Survey #2023-071

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Methodology

Full methodology
Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
Field dates
2023-09-07 → 2023-09-13
Base (unweighted)
2,000
Margin of error
+/- 2.3%
Module
2023 APSA Omnibus Survey #2023-071

Source

Citation

2023 APSA Omnibus Survey #2023-071, fielded September 7-13, 2023, N=2,000 United States adults, +/- 2.3%.

https://verasight-apsa-2023.tiiny.co

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Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting.
Population
US adults age 18+.
Sample design
Surveys are run as omnibus or single-topic waves. Omnibus waves are split into modules with their own respondent set, typically around one thousand respondents per module.
Field window
Each wave specifies its own field dates. Most omnibus waves field across roughly two weeks.
Weighting
Per-module weighting to CPS targets including age, race and ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, and metropolitan status.
Partisanship benchmark
Pew Research Center's NPORS benchmarking surveys, three-year running average.
Vote benchmark
2024 presidential vote population benchmarks.
Margin of error
Typically about plus or minus 3.4 to 3.6 percent per module at standard module sizes. Question-level MoE is recomputed when a base shrinks materially below the module baseline.
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