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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 170. If you had to choose, which thing on this list would you pick as the most important for a child to learn to prepare him or her for life? a. Which comes next in importantc? b. Which comes third? c. Which comes fourth? TO OBEY
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Counts by year:
| year | iap | fifth | first | fourth | no answer | second | third | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 730 | 96 | 168 | 235 | 8 | 116 | 117 | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 326 | 433 | 525 | 19 | 250 | 266 | 1819 |
| 1988 | 484 | 152 | 226 | 286 | 20 | 122 | 191 | 1481 |
| 1989 | 502 | 167 | 199 | 329 | 35 | 137 | 168 | 1537 |
| 1990 | 473 | 147 | 165 | 285 | 28 | 108 | 166 | 1372 |
| 1991 | 500 | 179 | 195 | 343 | 35 | 123 | 142 | 1517 |
| 1993 | 549 | 159 | 191 | 361 | 26 | 146 | 174 | 1606 |
| 1994 | 981 | 273 | 357 | 759 | 33 | 261 | 328 | 2992 |
| 1996 | 979 | 279 | 341 | 689 | 30 | 250 | 336 | 2904 |
| 1998 | 921 | 288 | 355 | 680 | 31 | 237 | 320 | 2832 |
| 2000 | 921 | 283 | 389 | 662 | 33 | 230 | 299 | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1853 | 144 | 131 | 367 | 13 | 112 | 145 | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1936 | 127 | 107 | 365 | 8 | 123 | 146 | 2812 |
| 2006 | 3508 | 133 | 184 | 389 | 7 | 119 | 170 | 4510 |
| 2008 | 658 | 206 | 212 | 555 | 14 | 155 | 223 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 667 | 204 | 193 | 537 | 28 | 170 | 245 | 2044 |
| 2012 | 636 | 210 | 182 | 537 | 15 | 156 | 238 | 1974 |
| 2014 | 851 | 292 | 204 | 718 | 17 | 203 | 253 | 2538 |
| 2016 | 911 | 327 | 239 | 847 | 22 | 211 | 310 | 2867 |
| 2018 | 785 | 260 | 167 | 706 | 21 | 169 | 240 | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1360 | 674 | 127 | 1318 | 99 | 160 | 294 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1173 | 594 | 169 | 1085 | 77 | 176 | 270 | 3544 |
| Total | 39964 | 5520 | 4934 | 12578 | 619 | 3734 | 5041 | 72390 |
1 first
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(q) 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