everyone wants to be middle class.
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Spain: opinion polls
November 2014. CIS (state polling).
Questions and data selectively included depending on how much I wanted to copy it.
#1. How is Spain's economic situation? Very good, 0% - Good, 1.5% - Fair, 16.1% - Bad, 39.9% - Very bad, 42.3%
#4. How is Spain's political situation? Very good, 0.1% - Good, 2% - Fair, 14.4% - Bad, 31% - Very bad, 49.5%
#7A. Which are the biggest 3 problems? Unemployment (76%), corruption and fraud (42.3%), economic problems (27%), politics (23.2%)
#12. Do you agree with the sentences? "Politics has a high influence in the life of every citizen" (80.2% agree), "I understand politics" (35.6% agree)
#13. Did you belong to...? 90.2% never belonged to a political party.
#14. Did you go to a protest? 18.4% did in the last year. Strike? 8.1% did in the last year.
#15+#15a. How would you define yourself politically? [two questions combined, each asked for one ideological label, with the same set of answers in both questions] Conservative (11.1%), Liberal (16.2%), Socialdemocrat (8.7%), Socialist (18.1%), Communist (3.4%), Feminist (3.8%), Progressive (16.2%)
#18. How do you rate the PP's government? Very good, 0.5% - Good, 5.6% - Fair, 22.9% - Bad, 27.7% - Very bad, 41.2%
#19. How do you rate the PSOE's opposition? Very good, 0.2% - Good, 3.9% - Fair, 28.1% - Bad, 37.8% - Very bad, 26%
#23. Which party would you vote for? [direct intention of vote] PP, 11.7% - PSOE, 14.3% - Podemos, 17.6% - IU/ICV* - 3.7%
#25. If the lowest numbers are the left-wing and the highest are the right-wing, where do you place yourself politically? 1... 5.2%. 2... 6.3%. 3... 16%. 4... 14.7%. 5... 17.9%. 6... 7.7%. 7... 5.4%. 8... 3.9%. 9... 0.8%. 10... 1.2%.
#26. So where in the left-right spectrum would you place these parties' politics? PP, 8.24 - PSOE, 4.61. IU/ICV*, 2.67. Podemos, 2.43.
#34. How do you define yourself on religious matters? Catholicism, 67.8% - Other religions, 2.3% - No religion, 16.7% - Atheist, 10.8%.
#35. [to religious people] How often do you go to religious events? Never, 61%.
#42b. How do you define your socio-economical status? High/middle-high class, 16.9% - New middle classes, 24.2% - Old middle classes, 11.5% - Skilled 'obrero's**, 31.4% - Unskilled 'obrero's**, 13.9%.
* Former PCE/PSUC.
** Note that the word 'obrero' (someone who is very involved with manual work, e.g. a factory worker) in Spanish does not include many types of workers, in comparison to 'trabajador', which is more broad.
everyone wants to be middle class.
or think of themselves as middle class.
I think it's the opposite shown here. Despite the massive neoliberal propaganda (including its Newspeak) and biased poll options, 45% still define themselves as manual labourers.
