Importance of social usefulness in a job

hlpsoc

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: H. A job that is useful to society?

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 hlpsoc.

Counts by year:

year	iap	very important	important	neither important nor unimportant	not important	not important at all	can't choose	no answer	Total
1989	84	406	690	248	59	7	17	26	1537
1998	1609	362	552	207	34	7	20	41	2832
2006	2992	697	659	121	26	8	5	2	4510
2016	1390	697	596	141	26	9	3	5	2867
Total	6075	2162	2497	717	145	31	45	74	11746