Work important and feel accomplishment

jobmeans

Source

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

Details

Question A. Would you please look at this card and tell me which one thing on this list you would most prefer in a job? B. Which comes next? C. Which is third most important? D. Which is fourth most important? E. Work important and gives a feeling of accomplishment

Values

[1] most impt
[2] second
[3] third
[4] fourth
[5] fifth
[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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
-/-	1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987
A/B	2012, 2014
A/C	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
D/-	2006

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	most impt	second	third	fourth	fifth	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1973	-	754	236	189	173	110	42	-	1504
1974	-	742	279	182	148	103	30	-	1484
1976	-	728	247	208	168	98	50	-	1499
1977	-	695	287	194	181	123	50	-	1530
1980	-	742	259	213	150	72	32	-	1468
1982	937	346	152	141	144	99	41	-	1860
1984	-	737	279	196	144	85	32	-	1473
1985	-	715	300	236	171	78	34	-	1534
1987	-	820	330	281	207	134	47	-	1819
1988	504	466	190	122	106	62	31	-	1481
1989	504	523	185	131	97	44	53	-	1537
1990	455	460	173	102	102	43	37	-	1372
1991	524	476	199	123	105	42	48	-	1517
1993	531	530	171	170	118	48	38	-	1606
1994	2508	228	83	63	59	30	21	-	2992
2006	2992	615	297	257	219	110	20	-	4510
2012	1002	435	166	160	137	52	22	-	1974
2014	1288	566	225	186	179	83	11	-	2538
Total	11245	10578	4058	3154	2608	1416	639	0	33698