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Need ambition to get ahead

Source: R/gss_vars_467.R
opambit.Rd

opambit

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 . . . D. Ambition? – 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

ballotsyears
-1987

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapessentialvery importantfairly importantnot very importantnot important at allcan't chooseno answernot available in this yearTotal
19872556277281541921816-1819
Total255627728154192181601819

See also

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

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