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empathy4

Source

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

Details

Question The following statements ask about your thoughts and feelings in various situations. For each item indicate how well it describes you by choosing the number on the showcard where 1 indicates that it does not describe you very well and 5 means that it does describe you very well. Of course numbers 2-4 indicate that how well it describes you are In between these points. D. Other people's misfortunes do not usually disturb me a great deal.

Values

  • [1] does not describe very well

  • [5] describes very well

  • [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/B/C2002, 2004

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for empathy4.

Counts by year:

yeariapdoes not describe very well234describes very welldon't knowno answerTotal
20021393485341302141831462765
2004147246335929912387452812
Total286594870060126417018115577

See also

Other Altruism: empathy1, empathy2, empathy3

Other Feelings: empathy1, empathy2, empathy3