Government should fund stem cell research

scresrch

Source

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

Details

Question Recently, there has been controversy over whether the government should provide any funds at all for scientific research that uses "stem cells" taken from human embryos. Would you say the government…

Values

[1] definitely should fund such research
[2] probably should fund such research
[3] probably should not fund such research
[4] definitely should not fund such research
[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/C	2010
B/C	2006

Overview

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Counts by year:

year	iap	definitely should fund such research	probably should fund such research	probably should not fund such research	definitely should not fund such research	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
2006	3582	260	375	128	92	64	9	-	4510
2010	1569	139	200	61	43	25	7	-	2044
Total	5151	399	575	189	135	89	16	0	6554