Protectionists enjoy imports, too

The “Aus­tralian Sur­vey of Social Attitudes”:http://assda224-100.anu.edu.au/nesstarlight/index.jsp has pub­lished a data­base of fre­quen­cy tables for answers to their 2003 atti­tude sur­vey on a vari­ety of top­ics. The sur­vey shows Aus­tralians to be (along with oth­er ten­den­cies) xeno­pho­bic about invest­ment, appre­hen­sive about for­eign com­peti­ton for jobs and more than a lit­tle pro­tec­tion­ist. But they are equal­ly avid import con­sumers. I’m tempt­ed to say: ‘no news there…’. WTO is influ­en­tial, accord­ing to the sur­vey. But not in a pos­i­tive way, it seems. The rest of this post con­tains some pic­tures of the fre­quen­cy tab­u­la­tions (for which I did not find a copy­right at the ASSDA site). I am endebt­ed to “Andrew Norton”:http://www.badanalysis.com/catallaxy/archives/000165.html’s sto­ry on atti­tudes to same-sex par­ent­ing for the link to this intrigu­ing resource.