I need your help finding online sources which are reliable (backed up by numbers, not sponsored by a vested group on one side or the other) on the following between liberals and conservatives (or their closest equivalent if taken world-wide) :

• Difference in the number of positive reports of those of a person(s) of a political group reported by the same group.
• Difference in hours worked during the day/week.
• Age difference for those living with their parents versus those that don't.
• Difference in benefit packages expected by their employers.
• Difference in the number of protection and support programs expected to be given by their government.

I ask you all to please NOT do the following:

• Turn this into a debate thread about who is right and wrong, insults, etc. regarding politics.
• Tell me to "Google it." I wouldn't be asking you all if I hadn't tried that already and failed.
• Provide anything other than the sources requested.

Thank you for any help you all can provide, and if you can't or don't wish to provide any help on the matter, I understand.

uhhh, for which country?

Sorry, I'm looking primarily for the U.S., though as I said before, if you feel other countries have a similar political backdrop, I would be interested to see those as well.

I personally don't know of such a thing. That might be hard to find, given that pretty much everyone has a certain slant. That being said, perhaps one of the us bureaus would have such statistics on their website. Also, you could call your local librarian at the reference desk and ask for assistance. Old fashioned, I know, but tried and true. They're more intelligent than Google because they actually UNDERSTAND what you're looking for, rather than just regurgitating key words. I've found a few interesting statistics from them before. For example, I was curious who the richest people in my home state were, and BAM! they had a list of 10 people, their worth, their income, even their ADDRESSES. It was both amazing and creepy.

Also, maybe you could try contacting some polling and survey companies/sites directly for info? Not sure if that's possiblem but it couldn't hurt to try.

Frankly, I'd be surprised if the data you wanted exists. You may need to turn to data mining/polling solutions to work this out.

-The moment you said you wanted reliable data having to do with people's political opinions, I lost hope. If you want this, you may have to make it yourself.

Surely some colleges or universities did similar polls for political or social studies.

Do you have access to journals?

Al: I likely won't bother going that far, as this isn't terribly important, but it's certainly an option I'll keep in mind.

Jarl: You may be right, in which case, again, I probably won't bother, but it seems like the sort of information that could be found in a national census or the like.

Echoman: It's a possibility, especially if I hit up friends in college. Again, though, I was mostly looking to online sources because it's not super important in that I need it for a paper or something.

Well, at the very least, you can point out that most college professors are liberals.