Number of Emailings to Government Officials

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Notes:

• The majority of respondents have never sent email to their highest government official (73.1%). 17.7% have sent 1 or 2 email messages. Only 2.5% reported that they cannot send email to their highest official.

• A higher percentage of respondents from Europe reported that they have never sent email to their highest government official (77.89%) or cannot (15.66%).

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Notes:

• There were no noticeable differences between genders for this question.

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Notes:

• Slightly more respondents over the age of 50 reported sending more than 3 email messages to their highest government official (8.2%).

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Table of Data for All Categories

email	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
1-2	1088 17.72%	649 18.25%	236 17.68%	801 21.54%	27 5.28%	204 17.62%	536 18.16%	75 17.61%
11-20	20 0.33%	13 0.37%	5 0.37%	17 0.46%	0 0.00%	5 0.43%	6 0.20%	3 0.70%
3-5	264 4.30%	152 4.27%	54 4.04%	194 5.22%	4 0.78%	37 3.20%	129 4.37%	23 5.40%
6-10	65 1.06%	38 1.07%	15 1.12%	49 1.32%	0 0.00%	5 0.43%	37 1.25%	8 1.88%
cant	151 2.46%	114 3.20%	19 1.42%	9 0.24%	80 15.66%	48 4.15%	74 2.51%	3 0.70%
dont	44 0.72%	17 0.48%	8 0.60%	19 0.51%	2 0.39%	7 0.60%	14 0.47%	0 0.00%
never	4488 73.09%	2561 72.00%	996 74.61%	2616 70.34%	398 77.89%	849 73.32%	2148 72.79%	313 73.47%
over20	20 0.33%	13 0.37%	2 0.15%	14 0.38%	0 0.00%	3 0.26%	7 0.24%	1 0.23%

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