Abstract:
In the first public policy survey conducted by the Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State University, called the Hoosier Poll 2008, Indiana residents identified their top priorities for state government action in the upcoming year. Overwhelming support for bringing more jobs to the state and making government more efficient placed these two priorities at the top of the list. Fully eighty-three percent of Hoosiers want to see more attention paid to bringing jobs to the state while sixty-seven percent want public officials to make government run more efficiently. Providing Hoosiers with more affordable healthcare and improving local schools are also high on the list of Hoosiers’ concerns as the General Assembly opens its 2009 legislative session.
Description:
The Hoosier Poll 2008, sponsored by Ball State University, obtained telephone interviews with a representative sample of 601 adults living in Indiana state telephone households. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research International. The interviews were conducted in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC from November 12 to November 16, 2008.
