China Times Public Opinion Poll (October 8, 2009)

China Times Public Opinion Poll

(October 8, 2009)

Survey Topic: Typhoon Parma

1.      Approval ratings of President Ma Ying-jeou

Date	Event	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
2008/03/22	2 days after being elected	79%	7.3%
2008/04/10	20 days after being elected	56.6%	9.7%
2008/06/20	One month in office	50%	28.6%
2008/07/17	Two months in office	35.5%	42.2%
2008/08/22	100 days in office	46.3%	38.7%
2009/04/07	President Ma plans to double as party chairman	44.2%	39.8%
2009/04/27	The third Chiang-Chen Meeting	44.9%	37.9%
2009/05/13	One year in office	56.1%	33.5%
2009/06/03	State visit to Latin America	60.7%	24.5%
2009/08/19	After 8/8 Flood	29.6%	55.4%
2009/09/08	The Cabinet resigns en masse	40.3%	46.9%
2009/10/06	After Typhoon Parma	47.3%	38.6%

2.      Overall, are you satisfied with how the Ma administration has been handling Typhoon Parma?

Yes	57.9%
No	25.3%
No opinion / Don’t know	16.8%

3.      Do you know that Mainland China donated NT$ 5 billion to Taiwan after the 8/8 Flood?

Yes	42.2%
No	57.8%

4.      Do you think that we should make good use of the donation that Mainland has given to Taiwan or return the donation?

Make good use of the donation	71.4%
Return the donation	8.5%
No opinion / Don’t know	20.1%

5.      Do you think we should use the Mainland’s donation to rebuild the Kao-Ping Bridge and other public infrastructure which was damaged by the 8/8 Flood?

Yes	69.3%
No	13.8%
No opinion / Don’t know	16.9%

Note: The public opinion poll was conducted from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm on October 6 with 1,016 people over 20 years of age successfully surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.1 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

Source: China Times Public Opinion Poll Center

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