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How much pay dependent on children

Source: R/gss_vars_476.R
paychild.Rd

paychild

Source

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

Details

Question In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each of these things be, in your opinion: E. Whether the person has children to support (how important should that be in deciding pay)?

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
A/B/C2000
B/C/-2021

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapessentialvery importantfairly importantnot very importantnot important at allcan't chooseno answerskipped on webnot available in this yearTotal
200015451633522662491345652--2817
20212029912424135444398616721-4032
Total35742545946797935731422192106849

See also

Other ISSP Social Inequality: execrnk, famrnk, justpay, pasup, paydowel, payhard, soctype1, soctype2, unsklrnk

Other Income: justpay, paydowel, payhard