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

year	ballots	availability
2006	B/C/-	partial
2008	A/B/C	full
2010	C/-/-	partial
2012	B/C/-	partial
2014	B/C/-	partial
2016	A/B/-	partial
2018	A/B/-	partial

Link at the GSS

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

See also

Other Science Knowledge & Attitudes: advfront, bettrlfe, leadsci, newsfrom, nextgen, scispec, seeksci, toofast, whichsci