Differences due to lack of will

racdif4

Source

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

Details

Question On the average (Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans) have worse jobs, income, and housing than white people.Do you think these differences are . . . D. Because most (Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans) just don't have the motivation or will power to pull themselves up out of poverty?

Values

• [1] yes

• [2] no

• [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/-	1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022
A/B/C	1990
Full	1977, 1985, 1986

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for racdif4.

Counts by year:

year	iap	yes	no	don't know	no answer	skipped on web	Total
1977	176	836	434	77	7	-	1530
1985	-	846	609	76	3	-	1534
1986	-	857	547	60	6	-	1470
1988	493	539	393	49	7	-	1481
1989	531	565	378	55	8	-	1537
1990	-	788	493	83	8	-	1372
1991	493	562	399	59	4	-	1517
1993	526	527	476	72	5	-	1606
1994	1015	964	882	115	16	-	2992
1996	944	926	902	120	12	-	2904
1998	961	790	915	157	9	-	2832
2000	940	845	884	130	18	-	2817
2002	1857	435	425	45	3	-	2765
2004	1906	426	431	42	7	-	2812
2006	2518	937	955	92	8	-	4510
2008	694	651	615	58	5	-	2023
2010	614	652	705	61	12	-	2044
2012	672	619	619	54	10	-	1974
2014	863	730	890	45	10	-	2538
2016	979	786	1035	62	5	-	2867
2018	789	566	927	55	11	-	2348
2021	1315	706	1960	14	1	36	4032
2022	2373	348	769	43	5	6	3544
Total	20659	15901	16643	1624	180	42	55049

See also

Other Core: divorce5, divrel1, divrel4, salabort, salfergt, sallabor, salsatfn, salsci, unemp5