Merdeka Poll: Polls Apart From Reality on 1Malaysia’s approval rating?
BN and its supporters are going to town in celebration of the latest Merdeka Centre Survey findings published on 1 June 2009. Why, their 1Malaysia received a 45% approval rating on the question “ In your view, how strongly do (sic) you satisfied or dissatisfied of the way Najib Razak is performing his job as the prime minister?
By Why LIE-dis n Lie-dat
This is a 1% creeping rise from the 44% he received when 1Malaysia became PM on April 3.
In the breakdown, the Malay respondents scored 53%, the Chinese 24% and the Indians 64%.
To get a fairer understanding of the results one should look at the respondent profile
courtesy Merdeka Centre for Opinion Research
The interesting profile details are a high percentage earns below RM1,500, and 67% has no internet access, plus 49% are secondary school education level.
The conclusion is it DOES NOT REFLECT the cross section of the public’s opinion. If the above interesting profiles are changed say earning above RM3,000 and university education level is raised to 49%, it may have been a different result altogether.
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