Entry:

Baggette, Jennifer; Shapiro, Robert Y.; and Jacobs, Lawrence R., "The Polls: Social Security - An Update," Public Opinion Quarterly, 59 (1995), 420-442.

Abstract:

Americans do not see social security as a pressing national problem, even though polls show it is important to Americans. Attitudes towards social security have been stable for the past 10 years. Americans consistently support increasing or maintaining existing spending levels for social security.

1984-1994

Other Data Sets:

ABC 1990; ABC/Washington Post 1981, 1986, 1990, 1991; ACIGR 1988-1994; AP/Media General 1988; Audits and Surveys for the Merit Report 1983; CBS/NYT 1981; Employee Benefit Research Institute 1989-1994; Gallup 1984-1993; Louis Harris and Associates 1979, 1989; H&R Block 1978-1986; Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health 1994; LAT 1985, 1986, 1995; Monitoring Attitudes of the Public 1973-1994; NBC/AP 1982; NBC/WSJ 1993; National Council on Aging 1981; National Commission on Social Sec