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October 22, 2002

Audience Interest By Question

	How interested are you in news reports on the following topics?	Very Interested	Somewhat Interested	Not Too Interested	Not At All Interested	Don't Know/ Refused
1	Issues and activities in local government and politics	34	46	8	11	1
2	Issues and activities in state government and politics	29	48	11	10	2
3	Issues and activities in national government and politics	36	43	9	11	1
4	What can be done to improve the performance of local schools	62	30	4	3	1
5	What can be done to reduce health care costs	63	28	4	4	1
6	What can be done to ensure that public places are safe from terrorism	66	28	2	3	1
7	What government can do to improve the performance of local schools	59	26	9	5	1
8	What government can do to reduce health care costs	64	25	6	4	1
9	What government can do to ensure that public places are safe from terrorism	67	25	4	3	2
10	What ideas political candidates have to improve the performance of local schools	55	32	6	7	0
11	What ideas political candidates have to reduce health care costs	53	36	6	4	1
12	What ideas political candidates have to ensure that public places are safe from terrorism	60	31	5	3	1

Methodology

Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,005 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period May 6-16, 2002. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. For items on Form A (questions 1-3; N=249), Form B (questions 4-6; N=256), Form C (questions 7-9; N=258) or Form D (questions 10-12; N=239) the sampling error is plus or minus 7 percentage points.

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