Differences due to in-born learning ability

racdif2

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 266. On the average (negroes/blacks/African-Americans) have worse jobs, income, and housing than white people. Do you think these differences are: b. Because most (negroes/blacks/African-Americans) have less in-born ability to learn?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	don't know	no	no answer	yes	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	176	66	947	7	334	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	-	62	1157	5	310	-	1534
1986	-	52	1123	3	292	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	493	40	761	7	180	-	1481
1989	531	45	774	6	181	-	1537
1990	-	43	1081	8	240	-	1372
1991	493	44	831	6	143	-	1517
1993	526	37	903	5	135	-	1606
1994	1015	79	1634	11	253	-	2992
1996	944	65	1697	5	193	-	2904
1998	961	77	1610	6	178	-	2832
2000	940	68	1573	9	227	-	2817
2002	1857	21	781	-	106	-	2765
2004	1906	19	804	3	80	-	2812
2006	2518	55	1759	5	173	-	4510
2008	694	28	1158	3	140	-	2023
2010	614	30	1248	8	144	-	2044
2012	672	28	1146	3	125	-	1974
2014	863	31	1496	6	142	-	2538
2016	979	28	1703	3	154	-	2867
2018	789	24	1402	4	129	-	2348
2021	1315	11	2548	1	141	16	4032
2022	2373	18	1063	-	86	4	3544
Total	38000	971	29199	114	4086	20	72390

Values

• 1 yes

• 2 no

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(q) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook