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Probable source of information about scientific issues

Source: R/gss_vars_367.R
seeksci.Rd

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

yearballotsavailability
2006B/C/-partial
2008A/B/Cfull
2010C/-/-partial
2012B/C/-partial
2014B/C/-partial
2016A/B/-partial
2018A/B/-partial

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

See also

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