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Life serves no purpose

Source: R/gss_vars_511.R
nihilism.Rd

nihilism

Source

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

Details

Question Do you agree or disagree with the following. . . D. In my opinion, life does not serve any purpose.

Values

  • [1] strongly agree

  • [2] agree

  • [3] neither agree nor disagree

  • [4] disagree

  • [5] strongly disagree

  • [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

ballotsyears
A/B/-2018
A/B/C1991, 1998
B/C/-2008

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapstrongly agreeagreeneither agree nor disagreedisagreestrongly disagreecan't chooseno answernot available in this yearTotal
19911581429574237184177-1517
19981548929754246383871-2832
2008658122766490755141-2023
2018117312226739666189-2348
Total3537471072651733277210115808720

See also

Other ISSP Religion: bible1, devil, fatalism, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, predeter, theism

Other Religion: bible1, devil, fatalism, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, predeter, theism

Other World View: fatalism, godmeans, predeter, theism