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Source

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

Details

Question Have you ever personally gone to see, or spoken to, or written to – some member of local government or some other person of influence in the community about some needs or problems? A. Was this need or problem primarily of concern to you, your friends and family, or was it an issue of wider concern?

Values

  • 1 self frnds famly

  • 2 both

  • 3 wider concern

  • 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

yearballotsavailability
1987-full

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

See also

Other Socio-political participation: fedtrust, governor, loclobby, locvote, othlobby, othself, polrally, schlhead, usrep