Main source of information about science and technology

scifrom

Source

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

Details

Question We are interested in how people get information about science and technology. Where do you get most of your information about science and technology (" newspapers, magazines, the Internet, books or other printed materials, TV, radio, government agencies, family, friends, colleagues, or some other source)?

Values

[1] newspapers
[2] magazines
[3] the internet
[4] books/other printed material
[5] tv
[6] radio
[7] government agencies
[8] family
[9] friends/colleagues
[10] other
[11] ted talks
[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/-	2016, 2018
A/B/C	2008
B/C/-	2006, 2012, 2014
C/-/-	2010

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	newspapers	magazines	the internet	books/other printed material	tv	radio	government agencies	family	friends/colleagues	other	don't know	no answer	ted talks	not available in this year	Total
2006	2646	205	198	413	138	746	34	6	36	31	38	17	2	-	-	4510
2008	518	161	160	410	48	617	29	-	26	20	12	18	4	-	-	2023
2010	1761	16	26	90	27	106	7	1	1	1	3	5	-	-	-	2044
2012	972	56	76	390	32	357	27	1	13	25	3	18	4	-	-	1974
2014	1299	81	80	524	58	388	31	2	29	27	7	11	1	-	-	2538
2016	1477	63	82	717	44	362	36	2	35	25	10	9	4	1	-	2867
2018	1173	49	48	649	46	287	21	6	27	31	6	4	1	-	-	2348
Total	9846	631	670	3193	393	2863	185	18	167	160	79	82	16	1	0	18304