How important to be able to speak english

amenglsh

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... D. To be able to speak English

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

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	very important	fairly important	not very important	not important at all	can't choose	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1996	1537	956	290	69	25	11	16	-	2904
2004	1596	1011	166	28	8	2	1	-	2812
2014	1264	918	267	53	26	7	3	-	2538
Total	4397	2885	723	150	59	20	20	0	8254