People fair or try to take advantage

fair

Source

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

Details

Question 162. Do you think most people would try to take advantage of you if they got a chance, or would they try to be fair?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	depends	don't know	no answer	would take advantage of you	would try to be fair	iap	not available in this year	Total
1972	96	19	2	542	954	-	-	1613
1973	72	8	1	562	861	-	-	1504
1974	-	-	-	-	-	1484	-	1484
1975	105	12	2	454	917	-	-	1490
1976	62	8	-	542	887	-	-	1499
1977	-	-	-	-	-	1530	-	1530
1978	78	10	7	454	983	-	-	1532
1980	63	18	-	505	882	-	-	1468
1982	-	-	-	-	-	1860	-	1860
1983	82	14	-	553	950	-	-	1599
1984	47	3	3	507	913	-	-	1473
1985	-	-	-	-	-	1534	-	1534
1986	55	9	5	490	911	-	-	1470
1987	75	18	9	751	966	-	-	1819
1988	51	12	1	335	598	484	-	1481
1989	54	6	-	376	599	502	-	1537
1990	53	6	-	325	515	473	-	1372
1991	59	7	6	366	579	500	-	1517
1993	74	8	2	384	589	549	-	1606
1994	134	16	9	787	1065	981	-	2992
1996	132	22	13	804	954	979	-	2904
1998	167	19	3	725	997	921	-	2832
2000	172	24	9	718	973	921	-	2817
2002	97	3	-	361	451	1853	-	2765
2004	80	4	1	347	444	1936	-	2812
2006	236	10	-	781	962	2521	-	4510
2008	105	5	1	553	701	658	-	2023
2010	121	10	2	524	720	667	-	2044
2012	89	11	1	553	684	636	-	1974
2014	137	6	-	675	869	851	-	2538
2016	114	11	6	797	1028	911	-	2867
2018	112	12	1	671	767	785	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	107	12	1	566	533	2325	-	3544
2024	115	16	-	431	394	2353	-	3309
Total	2944	339	85	16439	23646	28214	4032	75699

Values

• 1 would take advantage of you

• 2 would try to be fair

• 3 depends

• 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