Contacted politician or civil servant to express view

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Source

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

Details

Question Here are some different forms of political and social action that people can take. Please indicate, for each one, whether you have done any of these things in the past year, whether you have done it in the more distant past, whether you have not done it but might do it, or have not done it and would never, under any circumstances, do it. E. Contacted, or attempted to contact, a politician or a civil servant to express your views

Values

[1] have done it in the past yr
[2] have done it in the more distant past
[3] have not done it but might do it
[4] have not done it and would never do it
[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	2004, 2014

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	have done it in the past yr	have done it in the more distant past	have not done it but might do it	have not done it and would never do it	can't choose	no answer	Total
2004	1340	321	313	544	290	1	3	2812
2014	1274	228	231	417	364	22	2	2538
Total	2614	549	544	961	654	23	5	5350