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When the respondent's children are the respondent's age, will their standard of living be better, the same, or worse (GSS; asked of parents).
Latest: 52% answered “Better” in GSS, 2024.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS → mixed mode (2022).
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 → mixed mode (2022).
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS → mixed mode (2022).
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS → mixed mode (2022).
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave, and changes run from each group’s first wave to its last.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS | Children's expected standard of living compared with own B. When your children are at the age you are now, do you think their standard of living will be much better, somewhat better, about the same, somewhat worse, or much worse than yours is now? | identical | Much better → Better; Somewhat better → Better; About the same → About the same; Somewhat worse → Worse; Much worse → Worse |