[Mpls] 72 percent support bar/restaurant smoking ban

[Mark Snyder]

Correction from my earlier post, the Hennepin County Medical Society's poll
surveyed 600 people, not 800.

Having just watched that travesty of a basketball game last night, I think I
got my numbers mixed up with the number of times KG got fouled with no
whistle...

Even so, 600 for a population of 380,000 is still pretty reasonable
considering the typical sample sizes for statewide polls used by the Strib.

Mark Snyder
Windom Park


On 5/28/04 12:00 AM, "Mark Snyder" <snyde043 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:

> On 5/27/04 11:12 AM, "Michael Hohmann" <mhohmann at visi.com> wrote:
> 
>> The survey was limited to registered voters who represent what percentage of
>> city residents? 
> 
> The poll included 800 people. Anyone who knows anything about polling knows
> that's a reasonable number for determining a statistically valid result.
> 
> When the Strib conducts a Minnesota Poll, those samples generally run between
> 800-1000 people.
> 
> Some examples:
> 
> http://www.startribune.com/stories/784/
> 
> obesity (Feb 2004) - 806 polled
> 
> school standards (Jan 2004) - 821 polled
> 
> religion issues (Dec 2003) - 1049 polled
> 
> war/terrorism (Sept 2003) - 817 polled
> 
> Pawlenty approval (May 2003) - 1033 polled
> 
> In addition to these Minnesota Poll examples, I read earlier today about a
> national poll conducted by Yale University that surveyed 1000 people.
> 
> http://www.yale.edu/forestry/popup/events/summer04/poll.html
> 
> To understand more about this stuff, here's a description of how sampling
> works for the Minnesota Poll.
> 
> http://www.startribune.com/stories/784/701023.html
> 
> It's probably straightforward enough to explain how the Hennepin County
> Medical Society's poll was conducted, too.