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Wrong to cheat on taxes?

Source: R/gss_vars_509.R
taxcheat.Rd

taxcheat

Source

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

Details

Question Consider the situations listed below. Do you feel it is wrong or not wrong if. . . A. A taxpayer does not report all of his income in order to pay less income taxes.

Values

  • [1] not wrong

  • [2] a bit wrong

  • [3] wrong

  • [4] seriously wrong

  • [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/C1991, 1998

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapnot wronga bit wrongwrongseriously wrongdon't knowno answernot available in this yearTotal
1991158461557093853727-1517
19981548571276243846626-2832
Total170610328213337691035304349

See also

Other ISSP Religion: abdefct1, abdefctw, abpoor1, abpoorw, conbiz, concong, congovt, govcheat, homosex1

Other Federal Government: concong, congovt, govcheat