Feelings about communism

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Source

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

Details

Question 101. Thinking about all the different kinds of governments in the world today, which of these statements comes closes to how you feel about Communism as a form of government? 1. It's the worst kind of all. 2. It's bad, but no worse than some others. 3. It's all right for some countries. 4. It's a good form of government.

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	bad, not worst	don't know	good form	no answer	ok for some	worst kind	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	398	56	45	3	363	639	-	1504
1974	-	389	42	45	4	278	726	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	-	385	41	18	2	292	761	-	1499
1977	-	373	30	21	4	300	802	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	-	387	39	15	3	189	835	-	1468
1982	-	453	82	34	7	261	1023	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	-	373	35	29	6	155	875	-	1473
1985	-	401	35	21	5	197	875	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	-	512	66	23	12	266	940	-	1819
1988	505	305	25	19	5	156	466	-	1481
1989	504	354	25	12	2	147	493	-	1537
1990	455	275	28	6	4	103	501	-	1372
1991	524	328	28	8	3	134	492	-	1517
1993	531	378	32	13	5	161	486	-	1606
1994	2508	157	14	5	-	58	250	-	2992
1996	2904	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	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	49197	5468	578	314	65	3060	10164	6853	75699

Values

• 1 worst kind

• 2 bad, not worst

• 3 ok for some

• 4 good form

• 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