How important to have american citizenship

amcit

Source

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

Details

Question Some people say the following things are important for being truly American. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is... B. To have American citizenship

Values

[1] very important
[2] fairly important
[3] not very important
[4] not important at all
[NA(d)] can't choose [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(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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	1996, 2004, 2014
B/C/-	2024

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for amcit.

Counts by year:

year	iap	very important	fairly important	not very important	not important at all	can't choose	no answer	Total
1996	1537	1007	232	68	32	10	18	2904
2004	1596	999	159	37	11	9	1	2812
2014	1264	903	272	56	28	12	3	2538
Total	4397	2909	663	161	71	31	22	8254