51% Concerned About Toy Safety This Holiday Season
Just over half of American adults are concerned about the safety of toys being sold this holiday season despite the fact that most have yet to buy a toy recalled for safety reasons.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of Adults are at least somewhat concerned about the safety of toys sold this holiday season, while 47% are not concerned. Those numbers include 22% who are Very Concerned about toy safety and 16% who are Not At All Concerned. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
This time last year, 48% were concerned about toy safety and 50% were not.
Women are more concerned than men about the safety of toys sold this holiday season. Interestingly, adults with children living at home are less concerned than those without children about toy safety.
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The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on December 10-11, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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