Global Views Survey Research Center (President Ma and the Government's Performance)

Global Views Survey Research Center (GVSRC)

January 22, 2010

Survey Topic: President Ma and the Government’s Performance

1.      How have the following performed? Better than you expected or worse than you expected?

	Better than expected	Worse than expected
President Ma Ying-jeou	7.5%	75.8%
Kuomintang (KMT)	14.8%	68.8%
Cabinet Ministries	15.8%	63.3%
The Legislative Yuan	15.4%	62.8%
Premier Wu Den-yi	25.6%	44.9%

2.      How have the following performed? Better than you expected or worse than you expected? (Among Pan-blue voters)

	Better than expected	Worse than expected
President Ma Ying-jeou	13.0%	71.9%
Kuomintang (KMT)	24.2%	62.4%
Cabinet Ministries	24.6%	57.6%
The Legislative Yuan	30.1%	52.4%
Premier Wu Den-yi	47.6%	28.1%

3.      How have President Ma and his government performed in the following abilities?

	Better than expected	Worse than expected
Crisis management and response	9.4%	78.2%
Policy articulation and communication	12.9%	70.9%
Leadership in collaboration	16.1%	69.6%
Self-reform and introspection	20.6%	63.8%
Value professionalism and talents	23.1%	56.9%
Strive for economic development	26.9%	59.8%
Handling foreign relations	30.0%	50.1%
Cracking down on graft and corruption	32.4%	50.9%
Handling cross-Strait affairs	37.5%	45.4%

4.      How have President Ma and his government performed in the following abilities? (Among Pan-blue voters)

	Better than expected	Worse than expected
Crisis management and response	16.6%	73.7%
Policy articulation and communication	20.4%	68.7%
Leadership in collaboration	29.9%	64.1%
Self-reform and introspection	37.5%	52.3%
Value professionalism and talents	40.2%	47.4%
Strive for economic development	48.1%	44.0%
Handling foreign relations	51.7%	39.5%
Cracking down on graft and corruption	50.6%	35.4%
Handling cross-Strait affairs	61.3%	27.4%

5. President Ma Ying-jeou’s approval and trust ratings:

Date	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
July 2009	35.5%	52.3%
August 2009	21.5%	59.6%
September 2009	28.2%	59.6%
October 2009	29.5%	58.6%
November 2009	28.3%	61.0%
December 2009	23.5%	62.2%
January 2010	23.2%	66.3%

Date	Trust	Distrust
July 2009	45.2%	39.1%
August 2009	36.9%	47.2%
September 2009	44.8%	41.6%
October 2009	41.8%	42.4%
November 2009	38.6%	44.6%
December 2009	38.0%	46.4%
January 2010	36.4%	46.6%

6. Figures showing satisfaction ratings of KMT legislators in the Legislative Yuan:

Date	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
July 2009	22.7%	59.1%
August 2009	21.5%	59.6%
September 2009	25.8%	56.8%
October 2009	21.9%	58.5%
November 2009	25.9%	57.2%
December 2009	20.3%	59.8%
January 2010	18.0%	63.9%

Note: This poll was conducted from 18:20 pm to 22:00 pm between January12 and 14 with 1,014 people over 20 years of age surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.1 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

Source: Global Views Survey Research Center

http://www.gvm.com.tw/gvsrc/201001_GVSRC_others.pdf

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