How able is x to decide managing own money

decmoney

Source

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

Details

Question In your opinion, how able is NAME to make his/her own decisions about managing his/her own money – very able, somewhat able, not very able or not able at all?

Values

[1] very able
[2] somewhat able
[3] not very able
[4] not able at all
[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/-	2024
A/B/C	1996, 2006
B/C/-	2018

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	very able	somewhat able	not very able	not able at all	don't know	no answer	Total
1996	1460	281	384	429	292	43	15	2904
2006	3073	338	484	383	163	54	15	4510
2018	1175	256	387	338	138	26	28	2348
Total	5708	875	1255	1150	593	123	58	9762