Probable source of information about scientific issues

seeksci

Source

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

Details

Question If you wanted to learn about scientific issues such as global warming or biotechnology, where would you get information (" 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] library
[11] other
[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 seeksci.

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	library	not available in this year	Total
2006	2646	117	108	921	181	398	21	4	23	16	38	35	2	-	-	4510
2008	518	87	73	791	117	324	15	6	19	14	8	32	2	17	-	2023
2010	1761	12	12	157	40	40	3	9	3	2	-	3	-	2	-	2044
2012	972	34	40	599	68	190	13	10	11	5	1	25	4	2	-	1974
2014	1299	51	39	789	76	191	23	25	10	17	6	8	-	4	-	2538
2016	1477	42	45	927	101	175	16	24	19	11	-	15	5	10	-	2867
2018	1173	28	25	791	95	145	14	20	22	11	-	14	-	10	-	2348
Total	9846	371	342	4975	678	1463	105	98	107	76	53	132	13	45	0	18304