Should govt do more or less?

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Source

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

Details

Question 310. Please look at card BD. Some people think that the government in Washington is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and private busienss; they are at point 5 on this card. Others disagree and think that the government should do even more to solve our country's problems; they are at point 1. a. Where would you place yourself on this scale, or haven't you made up your mind on this?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	2	4	agree with both	don't know	government does too much	government should do more	no answer	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	161	173	433	104	245	371	3	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	175	280	574	110	258	198	4	-	1599
1984	-	184	241	537	79	204	204	24	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	185	228	604	81	189	180	3	-	1470
1987	-	260	241	657	104	220	328	9	-	1819
1988	484	138	141	392	60	128	137	1	-	1481
1989	502	147	159	390	72	131	134	2	-	1537
1990	473	135	133	364	54	95	118	-	-	1372
1991	500	149	148	395	70	111	139	5	-	1517
1993	549	156	162	401	39	155	138	6	-	1606
1994	981	271	358	709	98	325	235	15	-	2992
1996	979	239	324	722	100	304	229	7	-	2904
1998	921	231	339	749	105	282	202	3	-	2832
2000	921	226	331	709	95	313	213	9	-	2817
2002	1853	93	123	431	27	108	129	1	-	2765
2004	1936	86	123	381	22	126	137	1	-	2812
2006	2521	199	288	859	51	250	339	3	-	4510
2008	658	174	175	539	53	194	226	4	-	2023
2010	667	165	189	498	58	257	205	5	-	2044
2012	636	147	171	530	45	242	199	4	-	1974
2014	851	174	258	624	65	342	223	1	-	2538
2016	913	210	273	754	92	292	329	4	-	2867
2018	785	219	207	644	68	190	231	4	-	2348
2021	1377	386	319	977	10	388	539	-	36	4032
2022	1174	260	255	906	71	335	520	7	16	3544
2024	1116	238	221	879	60	320	448	3	24	3309
Total	34821	5008	5860	15658	1793	6004	6351	128	76	75699

Values

• 1 government should do more

• 3 agree with both

• 5 government does too much

• 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