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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

ballots	years
A/B/C	2002, 2004

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	does not describe very well	2	3	4	describes very well	don't know	no answer	Total
2002	1393	485	341	302	141	83	14	6	2765
2004	1472	463	359	299	123	87	4	5	2812
Total	2865	948	700	601	264	170	18	11	5577