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General Social Survey
Description
This is a subset of the 2016 US General Social Survey (Smith et. al. 2016).
Format
A data frame with 2867 rows and 14 variables
- aidhouse
On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's
responsibility to provide decent housing for those who can't afford it?
(Definitely Should Be, Probably Should Be, Probably Should Not Be, Definitely Should Not Be)
- partyid
Combination of questions regarding partisan affiliation and strength of
affiliation. Results in 7-point scale from Strong Democrat to Strong Republican along with
Other Party affiliation coded separately as 8.
- realinc
Total family income in constant US dollars.
- aid_scale
Additive scale of items with same general form as aidhouse, but including
items about: decent standard of living for the old, industry with the help it needs to
grow, decent standard of living for the unemployed, give financial help to university
students and low-income families. Items were standardized and reversed so higher vales
indicated greater generosity.
- age
Respondent age.
- sei10
Socio-economic Status indicator - theoretically ranges from 0 to 1.
- sex
Binary indicator of respondent sex.
- tax
Are your federal income taxes too high, about right or too low?
- newsfrom
Where do you get most of your information about current news events?
(newspapers, magazines, the Internet, books or other printed materials, TV, radio,
government agencies, family, friends, colleagues, some other source)
- educ
Total number of years of formal education completed.
- sparts
Please tell me whether you would like to see more or less
government spending on culture and the arts. Remember, that if you say
"much more" it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Five-point Scale from Spend Much More to Spend Much Less.
- wtssnr
Survey Weighting variable
- party3
Party ID variable that puts leaners, independents and others together in
Other; Strong and moderate Democrats are coded as Democrat while strong and
moderate Republicans are coded Republican.
- childs
Number of children in respondent's household.
References
Smith, Tom W, Peter Marsden, Michael Hout, and Jibum Kim. (2016).
General Social Surveys, 1972-2016 [machine-readable data file] Principal Investigator,
Tom W. Smith; Co-Principal Investigator, Peter V. Marsden; Co-Principal Investigator,
Michael Hout; Sponsored by National Science Foundation. -NORC ed.- Chicago:
NORC at the University of Chicago [producer and distributor]. Data accessed from the
GSS Data Explorer website at https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data.
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General Social Survey
Description
This is a subset of the 2016 US General Social Survey (Smith et. al. 2016).
Format
A data frame with 2867 rows and 14 variables
- aidhouse
On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to provide decent housing for those who can't afford it? (Definitely Should Be, Probably Should Be, Probably Should Not Be, Definitely Should Not Be)
- partyid
Combination of questions regarding partisan affiliation and strength of affiliation. Results in 7-point scale from Strong Democrat to Strong Republican along with Other Party affiliation coded separately as 8.
- realinc
Total family income in constant US dollars.
- aid_scale
Additive scale of items with same general form as aidhouse, but including items about: decent standard of living for the old, industry with the help it needs to grow, decent standard of living for the unemployed, give financial help to university students and low-income families. Items were standardized and reversed so higher vales indicated greater generosity.
- age
Respondent age.
- sei10
Socio-economic Status indicator - theoretically ranges from 0 to 1.
- sex
Binary indicator of respondent sex.
- tax
Are your federal income taxes too high, about right or too low?
- newsfrom
Where do you get most of your information about current news events? (newspapers, magazines, the Internet, books or other printed materials, TV, radio, government agencies, family, friends, colleagues, some other source)
- educ
Total number of years of formal education completed.
- sparts
Please tell me whether you would like to see more or less government spending on culture and the arts. Remember, that if you say "much more" it might require a tax increase to pay for it. Five-point Scale from Spend Much More to Spend Much Less.
- wtssnr
Survey Weighting variable
- party3
Party ID variable that puts leaners, independents and others together in Other; Strong and moderate Democrats are coded as Democrat while strong and moderate Republicans are coded Republican.
- childs
Number of children in respondent's household.
References
Smith, Tom W, Peter Marsden, Michael Hout, and Jibum Kim. (2016). General Social Surveys, 1972-2016 [machine-readable data file] Principal Investigator, Tom W. Smith; Co-Principal Investigator, Peter V. Marsden; Co-Principal Investigator, Michael Hout; Sponsored by National Science Foundation. -NORC ed.- Chicago: NORC at the University of Chicago [producer and distributor]. Data accessed from the GSS Data Explorer website at https://gss.norc.org/get-the-data.
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