Need wealthy family to get ahead

opwlth

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 . . . A. First, how important is coming from a wealthy family?

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

year	ballots	availability
1987	-/-/-	full
2000	A/B/C	full
2021	B/C/-	partial

Link at the GSS

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