Selected the option that the United States should provide arms to Ukraine, asked in the 2022 and 2024 CES with slightly different question wording and option lists.
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Latest: 33% answered “Should provide arms to Ukraine” in CES: Ukraine: Provide arms to Ukraine, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: U.S. should provide arms to Ukraine | U.S. should provide arms to Ukraine What do you think the United States should do in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine? [Provide arms to Ukraine] Caveat: Multi-response checklist item; unselected does not mean opposed | identical | Selected → Should provide arms to Ukraine; Not selected → Did not select providing arms |
| CES: Ukraine: Provide arms to Ukraine | Ukraine: Provide arms to Ukraine As you may know Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. What should the U.S. do about the situation in Ukraine? [Provide arms to Ukraine] Caveat: Different wording and option list than 2022; checklist, unselected is not opposition | equivalent | Selected → Should provide arms to Ukraine; Not selected → Did not select providing arms |