polviews
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
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?
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 |
| Total | 6793 | 9361 | 2409 | 2165 | 2081 | 7623 | 23992 | 413 | 9596 | 7900 | 57 | 72390 |
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(q) 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