How close r feels to black people

closeblk

Source

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

Details

Question In the past few years, do you think conditions for black people have improved, gotten worse, or stayed about the same? A. In general, how close do you feel to Black people?

Values

• [1] not at all close

• [5] neither one or the other

• [9] very close

• [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/C	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	not at all close	2	3	4	neither one or the other	6	7	8	very close	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1996	1932	64	24	45	48	427	76	100	33	137	12	6	-	2904
1998	950	119	86	97	77	797	138	197	97	231	28	15	-	2832
2000	956	130	54	83	73	751	152	208	115	246	18	31	-	2817
2002	1841	50	15	36	43	406	82	90	56	140	3	3	-	2765
2004	1914	33	18	24	45	402	73	119	56	121	5	2	-	2812
2006	2507	107	42	54	69	891	164	260	93	312	9	2	-	4510
2008	671	73	31	48	50	561	106	176	88	200	14	5	-	2023
2010	763	60	34	56	43	495	115	171	70	220	11	6	-	2044
2012	666	50	29	47	54	505	114	158	90	247	10	4	-	1974
2014	824	60	26	62	75	640	141	226	113	358	7	6	-	2538
2016	978	75	39	61	65	686	136	259	140	417	2	9	-	2867
Total	14002	821	398	613	642	6561	1297	1964	951	2629	119	89	0	30086

See also

Other Core: alienat1, alienat2, alienat3, alienat4, alienat5, alienat6, closewht, hapmar, happy

Other Ethnicity: closewht

Other Race: closewht