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People can't change the course of their lives

Source: R/gss_vars_511.R
fatalism.Rd

fatalism

Source

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

Details

Question Do you agree or disagree with the following. . . B. There is little that people can do to change the course of their lives.

Values

  • [1] strongly agree

  • [2] agree

  • [3] neither agree nor disagree

  • [4] disagree

  • [5] strongly disagree

  • [NA(d)] can't choose [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/-2018
A/B/C1991, 1998
B/C/-2008

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapstrongly agreeagreeneither agree nor disagreedisagreestrongly disagreecan't chooseno answernot available in this yearTotal
1991158551131045254643365-1517
199815484290875284392969-2832
2008658471077861850672-2023
20181173461038447246037-2348
Total3537190413353214318697214308720

See also

Other ISSP Religion: bible1, devil, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, nihilism, predeter, theism

Other Religion: bible1, devil, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, nihilism, predeter, theism

Other World View: godmeans, nihilism, predeter, theism