Hart Research (D) and American Viewpoint (R) formed a bipartisan research team to conduct an online nationwide survey among 302 business executives for the Committee for Economic Development (CED).

The survey was conducted May 29 – June 3, 2013.

Job titles for respondents were restricted to owner, president, chairman, partner, CEO, COO, CFO, senior vice president, department head, vice president, director, and administrator.

All respondents work for a company with at least five employees, including approximately 120 respondents who work for a company with at least 1,000 employees.

While online surveys are not sampled surveys, a comparable sampled survey of this size would have a statistical margin of sampling error of ±5.64 percentage points.