GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- President George W. Bush continues to have a significantly higher job approval rating among men than he does among women, and a month-by-month analysis shows that this difference has remained roughly the same throughout his administration.
Gallup has measured Bush's job approval 16 times since his inauguration on January 20, with the following results:
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57% |
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62% |
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52% |
Here are the survey-by-survey and month-by-month averages:
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DATE |
OVERALL APPROVAL |
APPROVAL: MEN |
APPROVAL: WOMEN |
GENDER GAP: MEN-WOMEN |
GENDER GAP: MONTHLY AVERAGE |
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% |
% |
% |
% |
% |
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2001 |
Jul 19-22 |
56 |
62 |
50 |
12 |
July: 8.5 |
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2001 |
Jul 10-11 |
57 |
60 |
55 |
5 |
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2001 |
Jun 28-Jul 1 |
52 |
57 |
48 |
9 |
June: 10.7 |
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2001 |
Jun 11-17 |
55 |
61 |
49 |
12 |
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2001 |
Jun 8-10 |
55 |
61 |
50 |
11 |
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2001 |
May 18-20 |
56 |
61 |
51 |
10 |
May: 10.3 |
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2001 |
May 10-14 |
56 |
63 |
50 |
13 |
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2001 |
May 7-9 |
53 |
58 |
50 |
8 |
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2001 |
Apr. 20-22 |
62 |
67 |
56 |
11 |
April: 9 |
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2001 |
Apr. 6-8 |
59 |
63 |
56 |
7 |
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2001 |
Mar. 26-28 |
53 |
58 |
47 |
11 |
March: 10 |
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2001 |
Mar. 9-11 |
58 |
64 |
53 |
11 |
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2001 |
Mar. 5-7 |
63 |
67 |
59 |
8 |
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2001 |
Feb. 19-21 |
62 |
63 |
60 |
3 |
February: 8 |
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2001 |
Feb 9-11 |
57 |
61 |
54 |
7 |
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2001 |
Feb 1-4 |
57 |
64 |
50 |
14 |
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OVERALL AVERAGE |
AVERAGE: MEN |
AVERAGE: WOMEN |
AVERAGE GENDER GAP |
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56.94 |
61.88 |
52.38 |
9.5 |
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As can be seen, the monthly gender gap between men and women has varied only slightly, between a low point of 8% in February and a high point of 10.7% in June, with ups and downs during the other months. This type of variation among subgroups is normal, and we do not detect a firm pattern that might suggest that Bush is trending toward either a wider or a narrower gap between men and women, across the first six months of his administration.
In terms of individual surveys, the gender gap was largest in the very first survey, conducted on February 1-4 (14% gap) and was smallest in a survey conducted just a while later, February 19-21, when it was just 3 points. At the same time, there has been variation in recent weeks, with the gap going from a small 5 percentage points in the July 10-11 survey to 12 percentage points in our latest survey, conducted July 19-22.
Survey Methods
These results are based on telephone interviews with randomly selected national samples of at least 1,000 adults, 18 years and older, conducted in 2001. For results based on these samples, one can say with 95 percent confidence that the maximum error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
