GSS 1972-2024 Cumulative Datafile - Release 3

In the last twelve months, how many trips did you make by plane? 
Count outward and return journeys, including transfers, as one trip.

In a typical week, about how many hours do you spend in a car or 
another motor vehicle, including motorcycles, trucks, and vans, but 
not counting public transport? Do not include shared rides in buses, 
collective taxis, or carpooling services such as Uber

In a typical week, on how many days do you eat beef, lamb, or 
products that contain them?

How many rooms are there in your home (apartment or house)? Do not 
count any separate kitchens, bathrooms, garages, balconies, hallways 
or cupboards.

To what degree was your neighborhood affected by air polution over 
the last twelve months?

To what degree was your neighborhood affected by water polution over 
the last twelve months?

To what degree was your neighborhood affected by extreme weather over 
the last twelve months?

For each of these, please tell [CATIFILL3] how important you think it 
is for getting ahead in life ...how important is giving bribes?

It is the responsibility of private companies to reduce the 
differences in pay between their employees with high pay and those 
with low pay.

From the following list, who do you think should have the greatest 
responsibility for reducing differences in income between people with 
high incomes and people with low incomes?

To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: 
Most politicians in America do not care about reducing the 
differences in income between people with high incomes and people 
with low incomes.

How successful do you think the government in America is nowadays in 
reducing the differences in income between people with high incomes 
and people with low incomes?

How do you feel when you think about differences in wealth between 
the rich and the poor in America?

People from poor countries should be allowed to work in wealthy 
countries.

People born in America and people from other countries who have come 
to live in America?

In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and 
groups which tend to be towards the bottom. On the handcard is a 
scale that runs from top to bottom. Where would you put yourself now 
on this scale?

In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and 
groups which tend to be towards the bottom. [CATI TEXT: On the 
handcard is ] [WEB TEXT: Below is ] a scale that runs from top to 
bottom.) If you think about the family that you grew up in, where did 
they fit in then?

And thinking ahead 10 years from now, where do you think you will be 
on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the top and 10 the bottom?

How fair or unfair do you think the income distribution is in 
America?

How often do you have any contact with people who are a lot poorer 
than you when you are out and about? This might be in the street, on 
public transport, in shops, in your neighborhood, or at your 
workplace.

How often do you have any contact with people who are a lot richer 
than you when you are out and about? This might be in the street, on 
public transport, in shops, in your neighborhood, or at your 
workplace.

During the next 12 months, how difficult or easy do you think it will 
be for your household to make ends meet?