Foreign countries and world leaders
A poll for the Sunday Times, carried out the day after the 1984 European Parliament elections
MORI interviewed a representative quota sample of 1,081 adults aged 18+ in 54 constituency sampling points across Great Britain. Interviews were conducted face-to-face, in street, on 15 June 1984. Data were weighted to match the profile of the population. The survey was conducted for the Sunday Times.
Q I am going to read out the names of a number of countries. For each one, please tell me whether you personally regard it favourably, unfavourably or neither favourably nor unfavourably.
| Favour -ably | Neither/ nor | Unfav- ourably | Don't know | Net | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | % | 80 | 10 | 4 | 6 | +76 |
| Sweden | % | 78 | 9 | 5 | 8 | +73 |
| West Germany | % | 68 | 12 | 13 | 7 | +55 |
| United States | % | 63 | 15 | 18 | 4 | +45 |
| Italy | % | 51 | 21 | 20 | 8 | +31 |
| Portugal | % | 47 | 21 | 17 | 15 | +30 |
| Japan | % | 50 | 17 | 24 | 9 | +26 |
| Greece | % | 44 | 23 | 19 | 13 | +25 |
| Spain | % | 48 | 21 | 24 | 7 | +24 |
| China | % | 43 | 21 | 22 | 14 | +21 |
| Poland | % | 40 | 19 | 29 | 12 | +11 |
| France | % | 44 | 14 | 36 | 6 | +8 |
| Israel | % | 32 | 21 | 33 | 14 | -1 |
| Algeria | % | 10 | 26 | 34 | 30 | -24 |
| Soviet Union | % | 14 | 16 | 62 | 8 | -48 |
Q For each of the following heads of government, please would you tell me whether you regard him/her favourably, unfavourably, or neither favourably nor unfavourably.
| Favour -ably | Neither/ nor | Unfav- ourably | Don't know | Net | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helmut Kohl | % | 42 | 13 | 13 | 32 | +29 |
| Indira Gandhi | % | 45 | 19 | 27 | 9 | +18 |
| Ronald Reagan | % | 47 | 14 | 34 | 5 | +13 |
| Francois Mitterrand | % | 40 | 18 | 29 | 13 | +11 |
| Deng Xiaoping | % | 21 | 12 | 11 | 56 | +10 |
| Olaf Palme | % | 17 | 9 | 8 | 66 | +9 |
| Andreas Papandreou | % | 20 | 16 | 20 | 44 | 0 |
| Mario Soares | % | 12 | 12 | 12 | 64 | 0 |
| Felipe Gonzales | % | 12 | 10 | 14 | 62 | -2 |
| Bettino Craxi | % | 5 | 9 | 13 | 73 | -8 |
| Konstantin Chernenko | % | 8 | 15 | 40 | 37 | -32 |
| Fidel Castro | % | 8 | 9 | 62 | 21 | -54 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | % | 3 | 3 | 82 | 12 | -79 |
| Colonel Gadaffi | % | 3 | 4 | 84 | 9 | -81 |
