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Income differences an incentive

Source: R/gss_vars_126.R
socdif1.Rd

socdif1

Source

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

Details

Question Here are different opinions about social differences in this country. Please tell me for each one whether you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree. A. Only if differences in income are large enough is there an incentive for individual effort

Values

  • [1] agree strongly

  • [2] agree

  • [3] disagree

  • [4] disagree strongly

  • [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/C1990

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for socdif1.

Counts by year:

yeariapagree stronglyagreedisagreedisagree stronglydon't knowno answernot available in this yearTotal
1990-79632454611415-1372
Total07963245461141501372

See also

Other Intergroup Relations: socdif2, socdif3, socdif4, whypoor1, whypoor2, whypoor3, whypoor4, wlthjews, wlthwhts

Other Incentives: socdif3

Other Inequality, Income: socdif2, socdif3, socdif4