Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Perceptions of the Federal Reserve
Washington, D.C., September 20, 2019 — A new Reuters/Ipsos public opinion survey of 4,174 Americans finds that over half of Americans (57%) report being familiar with the Federal Reserve. More than a quarter of Americans (28%) report that they believe the Federal Reserve is an independent institution. Just under half of Americans (46%) report that they believe the Federal Reserve is influenced by politicians and politics. However, a similar proportion say the Federal Reserve makes decisions to neither help nor hurt the president (45%). Proportions were similar among Democrats and Republicans. Fourteen percent of Americans (14%) report they believe the Federal Reserve makes decisions to help the president, and even fewer (9%) say the Federal Reserve makes decisions to intentionally hurt the president.
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About this Study
These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between September 10-16, 2019 on behalf of Thomson Reuters. For this survey, a sample of 4,174 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii were interviewed online in English. The sample includes 3,654 registered voters, 1,706 Democratic registered voters, 1,487 Republican registered voters, and 335 Independent registered voters. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 1.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Americans been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error. The poll also has a credibility interval plus or minus 1.8 percentage points for registered voters, plus or minus 2.7 percentage points for Democratic registered voters, plus or minus 2.9 percentage points for Republican registered voters, plus or minus 6.1 percentage points for Independent registered voters.
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