GSS 1972-2024 Cumulative Datafile - Release 3

Do you agree or disagree: 
A. In America people get rewarded for their effort.

Do you agree or disagree: 
B. In America people get rewarded for their intelligence and skills.

Do you agree or disagree: 
C. To get all the way to the top in America today, you have to be 
corrupt.

Would you say that you earn:

Turning to international differences, do you agree or disagree: 
A. Present economic differences between rich and poor countries are 
too large.

Turning to international differences, do you agree or disagree: 
B. People in wealthy countries should make an additional tax 
contribution to help people in poor countries.

Is it just or unjust - right or wrong - that people with higher 
incomes can: 
A. Buy better health care than people with lower incomes

Is it just or unjust - right or wrong - that people with higher 
incomes can: 
B. Buy better education for their children than people with lower 
incomes?

In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each 
of these things be, in your opinion: 
A How much responsibility goes with the job”how important do you 
think that ought to be in deciding pay?

In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each 
of these things be, in your opinion: 
B. The number of year spent in education and training?

In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each 
of these things be, in your opinion: 
C. Whether the job requires supervising others (how important should 
that be in deciding pay)?

In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each 
of these things be, in your opinion: 
D. What is needed to support a family?

In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each 
of these things be, in your opinion: 
E. Whether the person has children to support (how important should 
that be in deciding pay)?

In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each 
of these things be, in your opinion: 
F. How well he or she does the job (how important should that be)?

In deciding how much people ought to earn, how important should each 
of these things be, in your opinion: 
G. How hard he or she works at the job?

Given your skills and effort, is your pay:

These five diagrams show different types of society. Please read the 
descriptions and look at the diagrams and decide which you think best 
describes America today. . .

What do you think America ought to be like - which would you prefer?

Now we would like to know where you and other people fit in. Please 
look at the diagram you think best describes America today, the one 
you chose first: 
A. Where would you say you and your family actually are - at the top, 
somewhere in the middle, or toward the bottom?

Now we would like to know where you and other people fit in. Please 
look at the diagram you think best describes America today, the one 
you chose first: 
B. Where would you say an unskilled worker in a factory fits in?

Now we would like to know where you and other people fit in. Please 
look at the diagram you think best describes America today, the one 
you chose first: 
C. The chairman of a large national corporation?

In the job your father had when you were growing up, did your father 
supervise anyone who was directly responsible to him?

About how many books were there around your familys house when you 
were 16 years old?

Do you agree or disagree ... 
A. A working mother can establish just as warm and secure a 
relationship with her children as a mother who does not work.

Do you agree or disagree ... 
B. A pre-school child is likely to suffer if his or her mother works.