PPIC Statewide Survey (publication series)
Mark Baldassare, survey director

This ongoing project consists of a series of focus groups and surveys designed to provide timely, comprehensive, and relevant public opinion data to the state's policymakers on ballot choices, policy preferences, and the social, economic, and political attitudes of Californians. The survey information is also widely distributed to the media, to decisionmakers in the nonprofit and private sectors, and to the general public. The PPIC Statewide Survey, which includes special editions focusing on particular regions and themes, was created to address the growing need for independent and objective information as the state considers policy options for coping with population growth and social, political, and economic change. A strong thematic interest throughout the surveys is how Californians relate to their government-their perceptions about how government works and what it does, what roles it plays in their lives, how well it performs in delivering services, how involved people are in government and politics, whether they can trust their political leaders to do what is right, and the place they prefer government to have in their lives. The surveys were begun in April 1998, and as of April 2009, 97 surveys have been conducted, each covering at least 2,000 adult residents in California, and providing a database that includes the responses of over 206,000 state residents.

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