Help with a small reseach project: What issues are most imporant to you this election?

[Political Heretic]

Hello! I'm hoping DU will take some time out from other stuff and help me with a little research experiment I'm working on. If I get enough responses, I'm going to code these answers and dump them into SPSS and see if anything interesting happens. Because I need to quantify this in some way, I'm going to have to give you a list of options to choose from.

The responses should be interesting. If I get a lot of responses like I would really like, then I'll come back later and give you the statistical results I found.

PLEASE NOTE: You can PM your answers to me privately if you feel uncomfortable publicly disclosing any of this information

PART 1: Gathering Personal Information
The purpose of this is for the sake of looking for any patterns between issue importance and gender, age, income and ethnicity.

1. Which would best describe your gender identity?
- Male
- Female
- Other (if you're laughing, google intersex and learn.)

2. Which would best describe your age:
-0-19 years
-20-39 years
-40-59 years
-60-89 years
-90+ years

3. Which would best describe your ethnicity
- Anglo / White
- Black
- Hispanic
- Asian
- Native American
- Other

4. Which would best your individual income
- 00,000 - 24,999
- 25,000 - 64,999
- 65,000 - 99,999
- 100,000 - 200,000
- Over 200,000

Part 2: Your Top Issues
Below are a list of issues. Please carefully review this list, then:

5. List your top issue of concern for the 2008 Election cycle

6. List your top five issues of concern in order of importance


Abortion Rights
Civil Rights (general)
Corporate Accountability
Drug Policy
Economy (general)
Education
Environment
Executive Power Limits
Foreign Policy
Government Transparency
Health Care
Immigration
Iraq
Labor Rights
LGBT Equality
NAFTA / Free Trade
National Security
Poverty
Social Welfare Programs
Tax Policy
Racial Equality
Veterans Affairs
Women's Equality

Other (please name the issue)


PS - I will be kicking this, if mods allow, periodically over the next week.

[Political Heretic]

1. I'll start, example of response format:

1. Male

2. 20-39 years

3. Anglo / White

4. 00,000 - 24,999

5. Government Transparency

6. (in order of importance) Government Transparency, Executive Power Limits, Corporate Accountability, Poverty, Social Welfare Policy.

[leftofcool]

2. okay

female

60-89

Anglo

100,000-

foreign policy

foreign policy, Irag, environment, health care, economy, poverty

[napi21]

3. Here ya go.

Female
60-89
White
25,000-64,999
SCOTUS

[Political Heretic]

4. bump

[fight4my3sons]

5. .

female
35
white
foreign policy
foreign policy, Iraq, Environment, Education, Health Care,

[fight4my3sons]

6. forgot

0-24,999 income

[TZ]

7. Here's mine

1) Female
2)20-39 yrs
3)Anglo-White
4)25,000-64,000
5) Health Care
6)Health Care
Environment
Abortion Rights
Executive Power Limits
Iraq

[DireStrike]

8. Subject

1. Which would best describe your gender identity?
- Male

2. Which would best describe your age:
-20-39 years

3. Which would best describe your ethnicity
- Anglo / White

4. Which would best your individual income
- 00,000 - 24,999

Part 2: Your Top Issues
Below are a list of issues. Please carefully review this list, then:

5. List your top issue of concern for the 2008 Election cycle
Economy (general)

6. List your top five issues of concern in order of importance
Economy (general), Corporate Accountability, Government Transparency, Health Care, Environment

[Oldenuff]

9. OK........

Male
40-59 year
Anglo / White
25,000 - 64,999



Civil Rights (constitutionally speaking...repeal PatriotAct..Real ID Act..etc.)
Economy
Executive Power Limits
Drug Policy
NAFTA / Free Trade

[Political Heretic]

10. Thank you folks, please keep them coming. Right now I'm just recording the data, but

I would be great if I could get a large number of responses.

Cheers!