United Daily News (President Ma’s Approval Ratings)

United Daily News

August 19, 2009

Survey Topic: President Ma’s Approval Ratings

1.      President Ma’s approval ratings:

	Satisfaction	Dissatisfaction	No opinion
May 20, 2008 President Ma inaugurated	66%	10%	24%
June 19, 2008 One month after President Ma took office	50%	30%	20%
July 17, 2008 Two months after President Ma took office	40%	43%	17%
August 25, 2008 100 days after President Ma took office	47%	37%	16%
November 18, 2008 Six months after President Ma took office	37%	46%	17%
May 18, 2009 Ma’s first anniversary as President	52%	33%	15%
August 18, 2009 After the 8/8 Flood	29%	54%	17%

2.      Premier Liu’s approval ratings:

	Satisfaction	Dissatisfaction	No opinion
June 19, 2008 One month after Premier Liu took office	43%	33%	24%
July 17, 2008 Two month after Premier Liu took office	35%	41%	24%
August 25, 2008 100 days after Premier Liu took office	43%	32%	25%
November 18, 2008 Six month after Premier Liu took office	34%	42%	24%
May 18, 2009 A year after Premier Liu took office	43%	38%	19%
August 18, 2009 After the 8/8 Flood	20%	59%	21%

3.      Do you have confidence in the Ma administration’s disaster rescue and relief capability?

Yes	46%
No	38%
Don’t know	15%

Note: The public opinion poll was conducted from August 18 with 919 people over 20 years of age successfully surveyed and 232 people declining to be surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.2 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

Source: United Daily News

http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NATS4/5086352.shtml

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