Govt spending on defense

sparms

Source

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

Details

Question Listed below are various areas of government spending. Please indicate whether you would like to see more or less government spending in each area. Remember that if you say "much more," it might require a tax increase to pay for it. E. The military and defense.

Values

[1] spend much more
[2] spend more
[3] spend same
[4] spend less
[5] spend much less
[NA(d)] can't choose [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
A/B/C	1990, 1996
D/-/-	2006
Full	1985

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	spend much more	spend more	spend same	spend less	spend much less	can't choose	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1985	857	49	77	237	183	92	21	18	-	1534
1990	155	37	120	422	340	217	36	45	-	1372
1996	1572	61	211	585	315	106	19	35	-	2904
2006	2992	189	356	542	315	95	18	3	-	4510
2016	1477	184	421	479	196	87	12	11	-	2867
Total	7053	520	1185	2265	1349	597	106	112	0	13187

Source

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Values

Question Years and Ballots

Overview

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