Work satisfaction

satjob

Source

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

Details

Question 181. On the whole, how satisfied are you with the work you do?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	a little dissatisfied	don't know	iap	moderately satisfied	no answer	very dissatisfied	very satisfied	skipped on web	Total
1972	106	3	660	347	6	33	458	-	1613
1973	92	2	231	436	130	49	564	-	1504
1974	122	5	224	458	32	57	586	-	1484
1975	105	3	295	381	27	48	631	-	1490
1976	108	3	294	407	17	53	617	-	1499
1977	130	1	213	496	54	35	601	-	1530
1978	108	1	222	463	29	58	651	-	1532
1980	159	1	214	444	7	59	584	-	1468
1982	160	3	301	562	64	84	686	-	1860
1983	117	-	221	499	45	60	657	-	1599
1984	146	-	208	423	57	84	555	-	1473
1985	122	2	263	467	34	55	591	-	1534
1986	104	1	257	458	50	30	570	-	1470
1987	186	1	324	559	55	77	617	-	1819
1988	117	2	290	455	36	44	537	-	1481
1989	125	2	287	472	42	52	557	-	1537
1990	109	-	263	413	68	38	481	-	1372
1991	108	3	296	482	69	49	510	-	1517
1993	133	1	329	505	48	58	532	-	1606
1994	247	7	551	932	96	81	1078	-	2992
1996	253	3	488	918	100	101	1041	-	2904
1998	223	7	527	851	82	75	1067	-	2832
2000	186	8	542	918	105	77	981	-	2817
2002	100	13	1689	386	2	41	534	-	2765
2004	125	16	1375	507	24	63	702	-	2812
2006	192	36	2237	823	60	89	1073	-	4510
2008	135	19	453	570	15	53	778	-	2023
2010	155	20	477	565	19	62	746	-	2044
2012	136	11	481	539	25	50	732	-	1974
2014	161	12	626	686	5	92	956	-	2538
2016	167	15	1064	645	9	67	900	-	2867
2018	174	8	574	656	27	65	844	-	2348
2021	305	5	1199	1119	60	112	1198	34	4032
2022	241	7	1053	1012	8	107	1103	13	3544
2024	215	20	1025	922	10	114	993	10	3309
Total	5372	241	19753	20776	1517	2272	25711	57	75699

Values

• 1 very satisfied

• 2 moderately satisfied

• 3 a little dissatisfied

• 4 very dissatisfied

• 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