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Does govt classify too many documents as secrets

Source: R/gss_vars_568.R
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Source

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

Details

Question Given the world situation, the government protects too many documents by classifying them as SECRET and TOP SECRET. Do you . . .

Values

  • [1] strongly agree

  • [2] agree

  • [3] neither agree nor disagree

  • [4] disagree

  • [5] strongly disagree

  • [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

ballotsyears
A/B/C1994, 1996, 1998

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapstrongly agreeagreeneither agree nor disagreedisagreestrongly disagreedon't knowno answernot available in this yearTotal
19941518196603244262659410-2992
1996144419960521328959905-2904
199814452255152482165311317-2832
Total440762017237057671772973208728

See also

Other National Security: askcrime, askdrugs, askfinan, askforgn, askmentl, rptcowrk, sectech

Other United States: askcrime, askdrugs, askfinan, askforgn, askmentl, rptcowrk, sectech