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	not available in this year	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	0	11746