Top priority of govt: inflation or jobs?

infljobs

Source

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

Details

Question If the government had to choose between keeping down inflation or keeping down unemployment to which do you think it should give highest priority?

Values

[1] keep down inflation
[2] keep down unemplymnt
[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	1990, 1996
Full	1985

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	keep down inflation	keep down unemplymnt	can't choose	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1985	857	275	290	103	9	-	1534
1990	155	512	440	221	44	-	1372
1996	1572	528	596	177	31	-	2904
Total	2584	1315	1326	501	84	0	5810