Intergenerational Voter Preference Survey - Preliminary Results ...

Non- Eligible(no minors)Demeny Eligible(have minors)TotalPension 23.55 15.08 19.32Healthcare 5.91 4.38 5.15Longterm care 2.81 1.56 2.18Education 3.88 8.37 6.12Science & technology 1.16 0.29 0.73Childrearing support 2.33 16.25 9.27Environment 5.14 5.16 5.15Energy 5.52 5.45 5.49Foreign affairs 7.27 4.67 5.97Employment 30.33 25.88 28.11Security 12.11 12.94 12.52Table 4: Policy Preference (POL1+POL2) by Demeny EligibilityWe asked the Demeny Eligible voter, i.e., parents of young children, what they thoughtwere policies that matters for their child (POL1_Child, POL2_Child in Table 5).There is greatest interest in Education and Childrearing Support. 24.4% of parentsthink most important policy for child is Education. 20% think Education is secondmost important. Employment is also most important for many. As for the parents,25.7% thought Employment is the most important, and second most important wasaround 15% of total for Pension, Childrearing and Employment (Table 6). Security wasmost important for similar proportion of parents (13%) and child (14.9%). Security issecond most important for similar proportion of children (13/1%) while it was only 6%of parents. Environment is second most important for 13.3 % of children but only7.6 % of parents. In short, parents think children’s priority is more long term policies,Education, Security and Environment. For parents, Employment is overwhelminglyimportant with Pension and Childrearing Support the next most important.Relationship between parent and child policy preference is summarized in Table ParentMost /child and Parent Second/child in the Appendix.9