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Poor schools

Source: R/gss_vars_126.R
whypoor1.Rd

whypoor1

Source

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

Details

Question Now I will a list of reasons some people give to explain why there are poor people in this country. Please tell me whether you feel each of these is very important, somewhat important, or not important in explaining why there are poor people in this country. A. Failure of society to provide good schools for many Americans

Values

  • [1] very important

  • [2] somewhat important

  • [3] not important

  • [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 whypoor1.

Counts by year:

yeariapvery importantsomewhat importantnot importantdon't knowno answernot available in this yearTotal
1990-486527323306-1372
Total048652732330601372

See also

Other Intergroup Relations: socdif1, socdif2, socdif3, socdif4, whypoor2, whypoor3, whypoor4, wlthjews, wlthwhts

Other Poverty: whypoor2, whypoor3, whypoor4