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3.1 Do You Favor or Oppose U.S. Economic Assistance to
Other Countries? ............................
3.2 Do You Favor or Oppose Giving International
Economic Assistance to Other Countries? .........
3.3 Does Money the United States Spends Overseas Help
the United States Economically? ................
3.4 To Which of These Goals of U.S. Economic Assistance
Would You Assign High Priority? ................
3.5 What Percentage of Various Socioeconomic and
Demographic Groups Assign High Priority to
“Improving Children’s Health”? .................
3.6 What Percentage of Various Socioeconomic and
Demographic Groups Assign High Priority to
“Promoting Trade”? .........................
3.7 What Percentage of Various Socioeconomic and
Demographic Groups Assign High Priority to
Reducing Population Growth Rates? .............
4.1 Give an Estimate of the World’s Population ........
4.2 Is the World’s Population Growing, Shrinking, or
Remaining Stable? ..........................
4.3 How Long Will It Take for the World’s Population to
Double at Current Rates of Growth? ..............
4.4 Is the World Overpopulated, Underpopulated, or Just
About Right? ...............................
4.5 To Which of These International Problems Would You
Assign High Priority? .........................
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4.6 What Percentage of Various Socioeconomic and
Demographic Groups Assign High Priority to “Rapid
Population Growth”?.........................
4.7 What Percentage of People Saw Population Problems
as Arising from Concentration Rather Than from
Numbers in 1998 Compared to 1994? .............
4.8 Does Excess Population Growth Hinder the
Economies of Developing Countries? (1998 Versus
1994) ....................................
4.9 Is Rapid Population Growth Frequently an Underlying
Cause of Civil Wars and Regional Conflicts in
Developing Countries? .......................
5.1 Should People Feel Free to Have as Many Children as
They Can Properly Raise? (1994 Versus 1998) .......
5.2 Should People Have the Right to Determine Family
Size and Receive the Information and Means to Do
So? ......................................
5.3 Is Family Planning Already Available to Most People
in the World?...............................
5.4 Percentage of Various Socioeconomic and
Demographic Groups Who Say Family Planning Is
Already Available in All Parts of the World .........
5.5 Is Family Planning Already Available to Most in the
United States? ..............................
5.6 Percentage of Various Socioeconomic and
Demographic Groups Who Say That Family Planning
Is Already Available in the United States ..........
5.7 Should the United States Sponsor Voluntary Family
Planning Programs in Developing Countries? (1994
Versus 1998) ...............................
5.8 Public Opinion Regarding Whether Abortion Should
be Legal or Illegal ...........................
5.9 Public Opinion Regarding the Availability
of Abortion ................................
5.10 Do You Favor or Oppose U.S. Aid Programs Funding
Voluntary Abortions in Developing Countries? ......
5.11 Would the Number of Abortions Rise or Fall If Family
Planning Were Made Available in a Nation Where It
Had Not Been? .............................
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5.12 Do You Favor or Oppose U.S. Funding for Family
Planning Programs and U.S. Funding for Abortions in
Developing Countries? .......................
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