Need natural ability to get ahead

opable

Source

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

Details

Question Please show for each of these how important you think it is for getting ahead in life . . . E. Natural ability? – how important is that?

Values

• [1] essential

• [2] very important

• [3] fairly important

• [4] not very important

• [5] not important at all

• [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

ballots	years
-	1987

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	essential	very important	fairly important	not very important	not important at all	can't choose	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1987	255	210	738	521	53	7	15	20	-	1819
Total	255	210	738	521	53	7	15	20	0	1819

See also

Other ISSP Social Inequality: opambit, opclout, opeduc, ophrdwrk, opknow, oppared, oprace, opregion, oprelig

Other Social Mobility: opambit, opclout, opeduc, ophrdwrk, opknow, oppared, oprace, opregion, oprelig