People helpful or looking out for selves

helpful

Source

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

Details

Question 161. Would you say that most of the time people try to be helpful, or that they are mostly just looking out for themselves?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	depends	don't know	iap	looking out for themselves	no answer	try to be helpful	not available in this year	skipped on web	Total
1972	100	22	1	740	1	749	-	-	1613
1973	56	4	-	739	3	702	-	-	1504
1974	-	-	1484	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	99	8	-	545	2	836	-	-	1490
1976	91	5	-	756	1	646	-	-	1499
1977	-	-	1530	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	80	4	-	536	5	907	-	-	1532
1980	64	9	-	678	3	714	-	-	1468
1982	-	-	1860	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	68	11	-	603	-	917	-	-	1599
1984	54	3	-	650	3	763	-	-	1473
1985	-	-	1534	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	76	7	-	565	5	817	-	-	1470
1987	81	11	-	935	5	787	-	-	1819
1988	46	6	484	448	3	494	-	-	1481
1989	52	5	502	459	1	518	-	-	1537
1990	55	7	473	372	1	464	-	-	1372
1991	72	8	500	436	5	496	-	-	1517
1993	60	14	549	431	1	551	-	-	1606
1994	128	9	981	935	7	932	-	-	2992
1996	138	10	979	940	4	833	-	-	2904
1998	176	7	921	815	2	911	-	-	2832
2000	166	10	921	851	3	866	-	-	2817
2002	88	2	1853	391	-	431	-	-	2765
2004	76	3	1936	359	-	438	-	-	2812
2006	194	4	2521	924	-	867	-	-	4510
2008	118	2	658	624	-	621	-	-	2023
2010	135	5	667	588	2	647	-	-	2044
2012	98	8	636	612	2	618	-	-	1974
2014	145	5	851	742	-	795	-	-	2538
2016	137	7	911	892	3	917	-	-	2867
2018	142	9	785	694	1	717	-	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	-	4032
2022	149	9	2325	549	-	512	-	-	3544
2024	137	11	2353	440	2	365	-	1	3309
Total	3081	225	28215	19249	65	20831	4032	1	75699

Values

• 1 try to be helpful

• 2 looking out for themselves

• 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