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Who should pay for help for elderly

Source: R/gss_vars_490.R
eldcost.Rd

eldcost

Source

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

Details

Question And who do you think should primarily cover the costs of this help to these elderly people?

Values

  • [1] the elderly people themselves or their family

  • [2] the government/public funds

  • [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
A/-2022
A/B2012

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapthe elderly people themselves or their familythe government/public fundsdon't knowno answerskipped on webTotal
20126725674822476-1974
20222385320586242563544
Total305788710684891165518

See also

Other ISSP Family & Gender Roles: famvswk1, hhclean1, jobvsfa1, tiredhm1, tiredwk1, wkkidscl, wkkidscs, wkndact, wkyngscl