Govt spending on retirement benefits

spretire

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. F. Retirement benefits.

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 spretire.

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	80	197	270	71	18	25	16	-	1534
1990	155	142	408	471	85	26	46	39	-	1372
1996	1572	166	474	496	99	26	33	38	-	2904
2006	2992	370	589	422	87	20	30	-	-	4510
2016	1477	239	603	440	65	16	14	13	-	2867
Total	7053	997	2271	2099	407	106	148	106	0	13187