Govt should let peop decide how to protect envir

pubdecid

Source

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

Details

Question A. If you had to choose, which one of the following would be closest to your views? Government should let ordinary people decide for themselves how to protect the environment, even if it means they don't always dothe right thing, or government should pass laws to make ordinary people protect the environment, even if it interferes with people's right to make their own decisions.

Values

[1] gov. let people decide
[2] gov. make laws
[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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/-	2010
A/B/C	1993, 1994, 2000

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	gov. let people decide	gov. make laws	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1993	49	261	968	288	40	-	1606
1994	1606	284	786	278	38	-	2992
2000	1541	293	571	307	105	-	2817
2010	614	385	647	386	12	-	2044
Total	3810	1223	2972	1259	195	0	9459