Strengthen government's ability to achieve results efficiently and effectively

Indicator 5: Enhance Public Participation and Government Accountability

Measure a: Metrics from Elway Poll results

Description:

The percentage of voters stating that all or most of state agencies are accountable increased from 41% to 47%. While this is a promising trend, we can not say with certainty that it is significant as the difference is within the margin of error for the surveys (+ or – 5%). Nor do we have any information that we can use to justify what this change should be attributed to. In a different question, more respondents said state government agencies were getting less accountable (30%) than more accountable (19%).

While citizens reported that state government was more accountable, the percent of citizens reporting state government was effective dropped and percentage reporting government was efficient was did not change.

Are Washington State Agencies Accountable?
	Almost all	Most	Most not	Very few
2007	8%	39%	28%	21%
2005	7%	34%	28%	27%
Are Washington State Agencies Effective?
	Almost all	Most	Most not	Very few
2007	5%	24%	58%	17%
2005	4%	45%	37%	10%
Are Washington State Agencies Efficient?
	Almost all	Most	Most not	Very few
2007	13%	27%	42%	12%
2005	13%	28%	43%	12%

Source:

Elway Poll