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How important how well a person does the job should be in deciding pay; the 1998 item asks about pay for two people doing the same kind of work, while 2000 and 2021 ask how much people ought to earn in general.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 43% answered “Essential” in GSS: Importance of doing the job well in deciding pay, 2021.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Importance of doing the job well in deciding pay → web (2021).
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Importance of doing the job well in deciding pay → web (2021).
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Importance of doing the job well in deciding pay | Importance of doing the job well in deciding pay In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be …
A. How well the person does the job? Caveat: Frames pay for two people doing the same work; the bottom two options are collapsed. | equivalent | Essential → Essential; Very important → Very important; Fairly important → Fairly important; Not very important → Not important (not very/not at all); Not important at all → Not important (not very/not at all) |
| GSS: Importance of doing the job well in deciding pay | Importance of doing the job well 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)? Caveat: Frames how much people ought to earn, as one of several factors; the bottom two options are collapsed. | equivalent | Essential → Essential; Very important → Very important; Fairly important → Fairly important; Not very important → Not important (not very/not at all); Not important at all → Not important (not very/not at all) |