Govt should redistribute wealth

eqincome

Source

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

Details

Question What is your opinion of the following statement? It is the responsibility of the government to reduce the differences in income between people with high incomes and those with low incomes.

Values

• [1] agree strongly

• [2] agree

• [3] neither agree nor disagree

• [4] disagree

• [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	1990
Full	1985

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	agree strongly	agree	neither agree nor disagree	disagree	5	no answer	don't know	Total
1985	857	84	113	136	204	129	11	-	1534
1990	155	114	286	327	349	125	14	2	1372
Total	1012	198	399	463	553	254	25	2	2906

See also

Other ISSP Role of Gov't: databank, manhold, manread, mantail, mantap, opprof, oprich, progtax, verdict