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Realmeter: President Lee's approval at 37.4%, down 0.5 percentage points
A Realmeter job-performance poll put President Lee's approval rating at 37.4%. It was down 0.5 percentage points from the previous week.
Poll results released on the 5th showed a slight decline in President Lee Jae-myung's job-performance approval rating for the first time in three weeks.
A Realmeter poll commissioned by the Energy Economy newspaper put President Lee's job-performance approval rating at 37.4%. The survey covered 2,515 people aged 18 and older nationwide from the 28th of last month through the 2nd of this month, with approval down 0.5 percentage points from the previous week.
Disapproval of the president's job performance stood at 59.8%, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous week. The share answering that they did not know was 2.8%.
Party support was surveyed among 1,009 voters aged 18 and older nationwide on the 1st and 2nd. The Democratic Party recorded 42.5%, while the People Power Party recorded 38.4%.
In the party-support survey, the Democratic Party rose 3.8 percentage points from the preceding poll. The People Power Party fell 1.0 percentage point over the same comparison.
Both polls used automated telephone responses entirely over mobile phones. At the 95% confidence level, the presidential job-performance poll had a margin of error of ±2.0 percentage points and the party-support poll ±3.1 percentage points; their response rates were 3.9% and 3.0%, respectively.
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President Lee’s approval rating reaches 37.9%, up 3.1 percentage points
A Realmeter survey commissioned by Energy Economy News found President Lee’s job approval rating at 37.9%. The survey of 1,508 people aged 18 or older nationwide, conducted from the 21st to the 23rd, showed a rise of 3.1 percentage points from the preceding poll.
Disapproval stood at 60.1%, down 3.3 percentage points from the previous week. Respondents who withheld judgment by answering ‘don’t know’ accounted for 2.0%.
Realmeter surveyed 1,005 eligible voters aged 18 or older nationwide on party support from the 22nd to the 23rd. The People Power Party recorded 39.4% and the Democratic Party 38.7%.
The presidential job approval survey had a margin of error of ±2.5 percentage points at a 95% confidence level and a response rate of 3.8%. At the same confidence level, the party support survey had a margin of error of ±3.1 percentage points and a response rate of 3.5%.
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President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating falls for second week to 35.2%
Poll results released on the 12th put President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating at 35.2%. The results showed a decline for a second consecutive week.
Realmeter surveyed 1,504 voters aged 18 and older nationwide from the 6th through the 8th for its second-week-of-October approval poll, commissioned by Asia Economy. Positive assessments of the president's performance fell 2.2 percentage points from the previous week.
Negative assessments of the president's performance stood at 61.4%. That was an increase of 1.6 percentage points from the previous week's survey.
The share of respondents who said they did not know how to assess the president's performance was 3.4%.
The survey used an automated response system (ARS) with randomly generated numbers, entirely for mobile phones. The margin of error was ±2.5 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, and the response rate was 2.8%.
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