President Ma Ying-jeou’s Support Rating

Global Views Survey Research Center (GVSRC)

Survey Topic: President Ma Ying-jeou’s Support Rating

1.      Do you think that President Ma Ying-jou and the Cabinet have made progress in their overall performance?

	2010/5	2011/5
Progress	27.3%	30.3%
Regression	31.4%	38.5%
No change/the same	35.7%	24.6%

2.      Do you think that the Ma administration has achieved success in cross-Strait and foreign policies?

Cross-Strait policy

	2009/5	2010/5	2011/5
Success	53.4%	47.8%	49.9%
Failure	24.2%	34.2%	32.3%

Foreign policy

	2009/5	2010/5	2011/5
Success	42.6%	43.4%	43.5%
Failure	28.8%	37.0%	40.5%

3.      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%
February 2010	24.7%	62.7%
March 2010	23.8%	66.0%
April 2010	26.6%	61.4%
May 2010	30.4%	58.9%
June 2010	28.4%	55.6%
August 2010	31%	57%
September 2010	30.1%	55.6%
October 2010	38.2%	49.1%
November 2010	34.2%	51.6%
December 2010	34.6%	54.7%
January 2011	40.3%	47.6%
February 2011	38%	51.3%
March 2011	35%	52%
April 2011	32.9%	56.6%
May 2011	33.9%	54.3%

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%
February 2010	41.3%	43.2%
March 2010	38.8%	47.1%
April 2010	37.1%	44.7%
May 2010	42.3%	44.5%
June 2010	38.3%	43.3%
August 2010	41.4%	42.2%
September 2010	39.8%	41.4%
October 2010	46.1%	37%
November 2010	41.6%	39%
December 2010	43.6%	41.8%
January 2011	47.2%	36.2%
February 2011	45.4%	40.1%
March 2011	42.4%	43.2%
April 2011	43.5%	42.6%
May 2011	42%	42.9%

4.      Approval rating for Premier Wu Den-yih and Cabinet

Premier

Satisfied	38.5%
Dissatisfied	48.2%

Cabinet

Satisfied	33.8%
Dissatisfied	44.9%

5. Figures showing satisfaction ratings for 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%
February 2010	21.9%	60.6%
March 2010	21.5%	60.6%
April 2010	21.9%	59.7%
May 2010	25.4%	59.8%
June 2010	21.9%	58.2%
August 2010	23.5%	59.9%
September 2010	19.4%	58.2%
October 2010	23.6%	55.1%
November 2010	26.4%	53.1%
December 2010	24.6%	58%
January 2011	25.5%	55.3%
February 2011	29.8%	54.8%
March 2011	21.9%	58.7%
April 2011	24.9%	56.3%
May 2011	27.3%	55.8%

Note: The latest poll was conducted from 18:20 pm to 22:00 pm between May 15 and 17 with 1,002 people surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.1 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

Source: http://www.gvm.com.tw/gvsrc/201110413S01AP00PR1R.pdf

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