Importance of helping others in a job

hlpoths

Source

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

Details

Question On the following list there are various aspects of jobs. Please circle one number to show how important you personally consider it is in a job: G. A job that allows someone to help other people?

Values

[1] very important
[2] important
[3] neither important nor unimportant
[4] not important
[5] not important at all
[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

ballots	years
A/B/C	1989, 1998
B/C/-	2016
D/-/-	2006

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	very important	important	neither important nor unimportant	not important	not important at all	can't choose	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1989	84	354	716	280	55	5	17	26	-	1537
1998	1609	346	594	184	35	6	15	43	-	2832
2006	2992	653	715	111	26	6	5	2	-	4510
2016	1390	619	618	195	34	4	2	5	-	2867
Total	6075	1972	2643	770	150	21	39	76	0	11746