Think of self as liberal or conservative

polviews

Source

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

Details

Question 67a. We hear a lot of talk these days about liberals and conservatives. I'm going to show you a seven-point scale on which the political views that people might hold are arranged from extremely liberal - point 1 - to extremely conservative - point 7. Where would you place yourself on this scale?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	conservative	don't know	extremely conservative	extremely liberal	liberal	moderate, middle of the road	no answer	slightly conservative	slightly liberal	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	-	160	70	35	22	201	564	4	221	207	-	1484
1975	-	150	81	35	46	179	559	12	232	196	-	1490
1976	-	190	93	27	31	187	559	5	221	186	-	1499
1977	-	179	71	39	37	169	564	6	251	214	-	1530
1978	-	188	70	30	22	142	549	27	263	241	-	1532
1980	-	180	22	44	36	121	582	17	258	208	-	1468
1982	-	229	104	67	48	199	694	17	235	267	-	1860
1983	795	108	31	20	16	67	319	3	142	98	-	1599
1984	-	186	52	41	29	133	568	11	276	177	-	1473
1985	-	214	63	42	35	163	566	9	271	171	-	1534
1986	-	209	67	38	25	132	579	2	242	176	-	1470
1987	-	208	98	45	47	234	641	42	278	226	-	1819
1988	-	225	56	32	34	176	514	9	246	189	-	1481
1989	-	194	88	27	40	178	566	7	246	191	-	1537
1990	-	192	53	51	36	141	476	4	240	179	-	1372
1991	-	212	54	40	37	154	584	4	218	214	-	1517
1993	-	254	49	42	30	180	575	9	264	203	-	1606
1994	-	478	101	103	71	328	1049	12	472	378	-	2992
1996	-	458	155	93	59	303	1045	6	451	334	-	2904
1998	-	415	133	86	64	357	986	8	432	351	-	2832
2000	-	411	149	89	107	308	1054	24	390	285	-	2817
2002	1393	210	36	41	47	143	522	5	209	159	-	2765
2004	1472	223	26	56	46	120	497	5	214	153	-	2812
2006	-	685	154	167	139	524	1683	23	618	517	-	4510
2008	-	327	77	68	69	240	740	13	268	221	-	2023
2010	-	315	61	80	76	259	746	10	265	232	-	2044
2012	-	292	87	68	81	244	713	13	268	208	-	1974
2014	-	358	65	107	94	304	989	24	334	263	-	2538
2016	-	426	81	120	136	350	1032	30	382	310	-	2867
2018	-	354	79	99	122	278	855	22	283	256	-	2348
2021	15	617	10	174	207	623	1377	3	476	490	40	4032
2022	1	514	73	159	192	486	1245	27	430	400	17	3544
2024	-	516	99	186	140	421	1148	20	381	368	30	3309
Total	6793	9877	2508	2351	2221	8044	25140	433	9977	8268	87	75699

Values

• 1 extremely liberal

• 2 liberal

• 3 slightly liberal

• 4 moderate, middle of the road

• 5 slightly conservative

• 6 conservative

• 7 extremely conservative

• 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(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