Attitude toward racial busing

busing

Source

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

Details

Question 134a. In general, do you favor or oppose the busing of (negro/black/African-American) and white school children from one school district to another?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	don't know	favor	no answer	oppose	iap	not available in this year	Total
1972	62	313	7	1231	-	-	1613
1973	-	-	-	-	1504	-	1504
1974	54	298	3	1129	-	-	1484
1975	69	256	4	1161	-	-	1490
1976	39	236	1	1223	-	-	1499
1977	40	248	8	1234	-	-	1530
1978	57	306	16	1153	-	-	1532
1980	-	-	-	-	1468	-	1468
1982	58	480	6	1316	-	-	1860
1983	90	365	21	1123	-	-	1599
1984	-	-	-	-	1473	-	1473
1985	46	336	9	1143	-	-	1534
1986	40	431	6	993	-	-	1470
1987	-	-	-	-	1819	-	1819
1988	44	320	3	621	493	-	1481
1989	58	278	4	666	531	-	1537
1990	80	451	2	839	-	-	1372
1991	55	350	8	611	493	-	1517
1993	86	310	4	680	526	-	1606
1994	107	623	11	1236	1015	-	2992
1996	62	350	3	576	1913	-	2904
1998	-	-	-	-	2832	-	2832
2000	-	-	-	-	2817	-	2817
2002	-	-	-	-	2765	-	2765
2004	-	-	-	-	2812	-	2812
2006	-	-	-	-	4510	-	4510
2008	-	-	-	-	2023	-	2023
2010	-	-	-	-	2044	-	2044
2012	-	-	-	-	1974	-	1974
2014	-	-	-	-	2538	-	2538
2016	-	-	-	-	2867	-	2867
2018	-	-	-	-	2348	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	4032	-	4032
2022	-	-	-	-	-	3544	3544
2024	-	-	-	-	-	3309	3309
Total	1047	5951	116	16935	44797	6853	75699

Values

• 1 favor

• 2 oppose

• 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(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