TVBS Public Opinion Poll (Two Weeks after Typhoon Morakot)

TVBS Public Opinion Poll

(August 26, 2009)

Survey Topic: Two Weeks after Typhoon Morakot

1.      Satisfaction ratings of President Ma Ying-jeou’s performance:

	Very satisfied	Somewhat Satisfied	Somewhat dissatisfied	Very dissatisfied	No opinion
June 17, 2008 (The first month Ma came to office)	8%	33%	20%	17%	21%
	41%		37%
July 16, 2008 (Second month)	5%	25%	25%	24%	21%
	30%		49%
August 26, 2008 (100 days)	7%	34%	22%	18%	19%
	41%		40%
November 18, 2008 (Sixth month)	6%	28%	26%	26%	15%
	34%		52%
May 21, 2009 (Inaugurated for a year)	41%		40%		19%
June 4, 2009 (After the state visits)	47%		31%		22%
June 10, 2009 (After announcing that he would double as KMT Chairman)	41%		37%		22%
August 8, 2009 (8/8 Flood)	16%		65%		19%
August 22, 2009 (Two weeks after the 8/8 Flood)	20%		59%		21%
+/-	+ 2%		- 6%

2. Satisfaction ratings of Premier Liu Chao-shiuan’s performance:

	Satisfied	Dissatisfied	No opinion
The first month Liu came to office	38%	43%	19%
The second month Liu came to office	28%	50%	22%
100 days after Liu came to office	44%	36%	20%
The sixth month Liu came to office	34%	56%	10%
A year after Liu came to office	39%	46%	15%
August 8, 2009 (8/8 Flood)	13%	70%	17%
August 22, 2009 (Two weeks after the 8/8 Flood)	11%	65%	24%
+/-	- 2%	+ 5%

2.      Do you think that the central government’s performance on disaster relief this week is better, about the same, or worse, compared to last week?

Better	50%
About the same	33%
Worse	6%
No opinion	11%

3.      Do you have confidence in the Ma administration’s disaster rehabilitation capabilities?

	Two days after the flood		Two weeks after the flood
Yes, very much	11%	39%	12%	40%
Yes, somewhat	28%		28%
No, not so much	26%	50%	21%	43%
No, not at all	24%		22%
No opinion	12%		17%

4.      Morakot Typhoon caused serious troubles for Taiwan. Some people think that the cause of this disaster is natural, but some think it was the result of overexploitation and over-construction. Which do you think is the primary reason for the disaster?

Natural causes	29%
Overexploitation / over-construction	56%
Both	7%
No opinion / Don’t know	9%

5.      Do you have confidence in the Ma administration’s ability to prevent floods in the future?

	Typhoon Kalmaegi July 21, 2008		Typhoon Morakot August 23, 2009
Yes, very much	12%	49%	9%	33%
Yes, somewhat	37%		24%
No, not so much	18%	32%	25%	49%
No, not at all	14%		24%
No opinion	19%		18%

【Editor’s note】

For your reference, please also see the previous TVBS poll dated on August 20 in which when the public was asked ‘Do you think President Ma should resign?’ 59% of the respondents answered ‘no’.

Note: The public opinion poll was conducted from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm on August 21 to 23 with 1,012 people over 20 years of age successfully surveyed and 132 people declining to be surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.3 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

Source: TVBS Public Opinion Poll Center

http://www.tvbs.com.tw/FILE_DB/DL_DB/yijung/200908/yijung-20090824183849.pdf

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