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Preferred change in state spending on welfare, asked with the same five-point scale in the 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024 CES.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 15% answered “Slightly decrease” in CES: State legislature spending on welfare, 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: State spending on welfare | State spending on welfare State legislatures must make choices when making spending decisions on important state programs. How would you like your legislature to spend money on each of the five areas below? [Welfare] Caveat: Reference wording and scale | identical | Greatly increase → Greatly increase; Slightly increase → Slightly increase; Maintain → Maintain; Slightly decrease → Slightly decrease; Greatly decrease → Greatly decrease |
| CES: State spending on welfare | State spending on welfare State legislatures must make choices when making spending decisions on important state programs. How would you like your legislature to spend money on each of the five areas below? [Welfare] Caveat: Same wording and scale across years | identical | Greatly increase → Greatly increase; Slightly increase → Slightly increase; Maintain → Maintain; Slightly decrease → Slightly decrease; Greatly decrease → Greatly decrease |
| CES: State spending on welfare | State spending on welfare State legislatures must make choices when making spending decisions on important state programs. How would you like your legislature to spend money on each of the five areas below? [Welfare] Caveat: Same wording and scale across years | identical | Greatly increase → Greatly increase; Slightly increase → Slightly increase; Maintain → Maintain; Slightly decrease → Slightly decrease; Greatly decrease → Greatly decrease |
| CES: State legislature spending on welfare | State legislature spending on welfare State legislatures must make choices when making spending decisions on important state programs. How would you like your legislature to spend money on each of the five areas below? [Welfare] Caveat: Same wording and scale across years | identical | Greatly increase → Greatly increase; Slightly increase → Slightly increase; Maintain → Maintain; Slightly decrease → Slightly decrease; Greatly decrease → Greatly decrease |