Poll Results: Personal Finances

November 30, 2016, 2:50 PM GMT+0

These are the topline results of a YouGov survey of 1000 US adults interviewed November 12-28, 2016. The margin of error is 4.2%.

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Would you say that you and your family are...
Better off financially than you were a year ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15%
About the same financially as you were a year ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54%
Worse off financially than you were a year ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5%

Do you think that you and your family will be...
Better off financially a year from now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27%
About the same financially a year from now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48%
Worse off financially a year from now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11%

Which best describes your current financial situation?
I’m making enough money to live comfortably . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33%
I’m not making enough money to live comfortably, but I can get by . . . . . . .40%
I’m not making enough money to get by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9%

How often, at all, do you find yourself worrying about your financial situation?
All the time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27%
Sometimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50%
Rarely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16%
Never . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7%

Who did you vote for in the 2016 presidential election?
Hillary Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26%
Donald Trump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26%
Gary Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1%
Jill Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1%
Evan McMullin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0%
I voted for someone else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1%
I did not vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45%

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