Attitudes Toward Personal Information and Privacy

This horizontal bar graph is titled "Attitudes Toward Personal Information and Privacy." It shows answers to Question 8, "Please indicate your level of agreement or disagreement with each of the following statements about political parties and privacy issues." Three statements were given.

For each statement, 1,011 respondents voted on a 5-point scale, with 5 being Completely agree and 1 being Completely disagree. 2 percent refused to respond.

The levels of agreement for each statement are as follows:

• "Electors should have the right to 'opt out'."
  • 66 percent said 5
  • 12 percent said 4
  • 12 percent said 3
  • 3 percent said 2
  • 6 percent said 1
• "Parties/candidates use personal information appropriately to communicate with electors."
  • 13 percent said 5
  • 18 percent said 4
  • 35 percent said 3
  • 11 percent said 2
  • 21 percent said 1
• "It is important that parties be able to collect personal information on electors."
  • 8 percent said 5
  • 7 percent said 4
  • 16 percent said 3
  • 14 percent said 2
  • 55 percent said 1