Intergenerational Voter Preference Survey - Preliminary Results ...

Figure 4: Estimate Demeny Eligible and Demeny Voting Block of Actual Population4. Voter Preference over PolicyWe asked respondents to choose what is the most important and second most importantfrom a list of 11 policies.The specific policy questions that we asked were:1. POL1 : what is the most important policy?2. POL2: what is the second most important policy?3. POL1_CHILD 4 : what is the most important policy for your child?4. POL2_CHILD 5 : what is the second most important policy for your child?Tables 3 summarizes responses by have at least one child under 19, have children allover 20, and no children. The largest proportion in all three groups think Employmentis most important. One can interpret this to mean many people think economic policyis very important. Those with young children think Childrearing Support is veryimportant, while other two groups think Pension is very important. Pension can beimportant because your are old and close to getting a pension but also because you haveno children and cannot expect family support in old age. We will return to the effectof having children and age later in Section 7. Instead, we will focus here on DemenyEligibility (Table 4).4 Only asked from respondents with children.5 Only asked from respondents with children.7