Allow racists book in library

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Source

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

Details

Question 78. Or consider a person who believes that Blacks are genetically inferior. c. If some people in your community suggested that a book he wrote which said Blacks are inferior should be taken out of your public library, would you favor removing this book, or not?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	don't know	no answer	not remove	remove	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	-	55	7	892	545	-	1499
1977	-	42	5	930	553	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	-	52	5	935	476	-	1468
1982	-	86	3	1048	723	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	-	47	3	926	497	-	1473
1985	-	42	4	920	568	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	-	45	11	1115	648	-	1819
1988	504	30	2	603	342	-	1481
1989	504	32	6	669	326	-	1537
1990	455	37	4	587	289	-	1372
1991	524	26	4	650	313	-	1517
1993	531	42	3	691	339	-	1606
1994	996	57	5	1313	621	-	2992
1996	981	66	6	1228	623	-	2904
1998	950	76	4	1184	618	-	2832
2000	956	62	11	1169	619	-	2817
2002	1841	23	5	602	294	-	2765
2004	1914	13	-	594	291	-	2812
2006	2507	33	2	1305	663	-	4510
2008	671	35	3	856	458	-	2023
2010	763	19	5	833	424	-	2044
2012	666	39	7	828	434	-	1974
2014	824	25	6	1077	606	-	2538
2016	977	34	6	1206	644	-	2867
2018	774	24	8	952	590	-	2348
2021	2714	2	1	798	503	14	4032
2022	2380	24	4	677	455	4	3544
2024	2163	18	2	678	445	3	3309
Total	35287	1086	132	25266	13907	21	75699

Values

• 1 remove

• 2 not remove

• 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