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If emergency, return to draft?

Source: R/gss_vars_89.R
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Source

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

Details

Question Do you think we should return to a military draft at this time, or should we continue to rely on volunteers? B. IF VOLUNTEERS OR DON”T KNOW: If there were a national emergency, do you think we should return to a military draft or should we continue to rely on volunteers?

Values

  • [1] draft

  • [2] volunteers

  • [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

ballotsyears
-1982, 1983, 1984

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapdraftvolunteersdon't knowno answernot available in this yearTotal
19827198682005617-1860
19834589281454226-1599
19843298891842645-1473
Total150626855291248804932

See also

Other Core: draft, draftcol, draftfe, draftfem, draftgay, draftmar, draftpar, febrass, fehlpmil

Other Military: draft, draftcol, draftfe, draftfem, draftgay, draftmar, draftpar, febrass, fehlpmil

Other Split Ballots: draft, draftcol, draftfe, draftfem, draftgay, draftmar, draftpar