Civil liberties - video surveillance

cctv

Source

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

Details

Question Now I have some questions about civil liberties and public security. Do you think that the American government should or should not have the right to do the following? Keep people under video surveillance in public areas? Would you say...

Values

[1] definitely should have the right
[2] probably should have the right
[3] probably should not have the right
[4] definitely should not have the right
[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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B	2016, 2024

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	definitely should have the right	probably should have the right	probably should not have the right	definitely should not have the right	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	skipped on web	Total
2016	1477	345	534	264	215	19	13	-	-	2867
2024	1673	378	566	288	261	125	5	-	13	3309
Total	3150	723	1100	552	476	144	18	0	13	6176