re: #189 jaunte

Here’s the ‘how the poll was conducted’ info:

I don’t think they did any intentional manipulating of the data, but doesn’t 20% of households being union households and 25% being households of government employees seem like it overcounts those populations by a factor of almost double?

en.wikipedia.org

On the order of 10% of the work force is unionized…that’s kind of what I figured, but this wiki link seems to back up what I recalled reported elsewhere.

I haven’t seen stats before on government employees as percent of work force, but 25% seems very high. This was the best I could find with a quick google search

wiki.answers.com

(about 8% of the work force, all levels of government)