People helpful or looking out for selves (no volunteered response on web)

helpfulnv

Source

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

Details

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

Values

• [1] try to be helpful

• [2] looking out for themselves

• [3] depends (phone mode only: volunteered)

• [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
B/C	2021, 2022, 2024

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	try to be helpful	looking out for themselves	depends (phone mode only: volunteered)	don't know	skipped on web	Total
2021	2719	751	550	6	2	4	4032
2022	2962	303	275	-	-	4	3544
2024	2665	325	308	9	1	1	3309
Total	8346	1379	1133	15	3	9	10885