“Welfare” or “assistance to the poor”?
How different are spending priorities when the survey uses a different label?
% saying 'too little' is being spent. Dots show the estimate; whiskers show the supplied 95% confidence interval.
Democrat
Independent
Republican
Chart data · 6 rows
| Group | Wording | Estimate (%) | Lower 95% | Upper 95% | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democrat | Assistance to the poor | 88.52 | 84.39 | 92.64 | 429 |
| Democrat | Welfare | 51.59 | 44.91 | 58.27 | 468 |
| Independent | Assistance to the poor | 72.13 | 67.34 | 76.92 | 689 |
| Independent | Welfare | 32.69 | 27.92 | 37.46 | 707 |
| Republican | Assistance to the poor | 51.41 | 44.88 | 57.93 | 419 |
| Republican | Welfare | 16.56 | 11.62 | 21.51 | 399 |
The item labels are “Welfare” and “Assistance to the poor.” These are separate survey wording conditions, not before/after answers from the same people. Party panels omit missing party identification. No interval for the difference is inferred from the two marginal intervals.
General Social Survey · 1984–2024 · captured wording-condition estimates
Reading notes
Separate wording conditions, not paired before/after observations. Supplied 95% intervals describe each estimate; they are not intervals for the difference.
Source & method
General Social Survey · 1984–2024 · captured wording-condition estimates
Unchanged aggregate estimates and supplied confidence intervals. Null-party rows remain in the fixture but are excluded from named-party panels.
Capture provenance
- Source repository / file
- ctzn-pub / public/data/gss-wording-experiments/natfare-vs-natfarey/preview-bundle.json
- Revision
- 65774e3e2412742dab0b6209a4cb5c3b648ea8ff
- Captured
- 2026-09-11
- Source SHA-256
- e5ed3fb7a651655a1ca8d6ea4820feec5244b77ceede637ce19156aaa8ead735
- Reuse note
- Aggregated public-facing example from the user-owned source repository. Upstream attribution retained; no new license asserted.
