Govt spending on law enforcement

sppolice

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. C. The police and law enforcement.

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 sppolice.

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	64	274	275	31	6	12	15	-	1534
1990	155	131	509	442	50	15	32	38	-	1372
1996	1572	155	586	447	74	15	19	36	-	2904
2006	2992	245	593	544	100	20	15	1	-	4510
2016	1477	150	545	537	117	21	9	11	-	2867
Total	7053	745	2507	2245	372	77	87	101	0	13187

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Values

Question Years and Ballots

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