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Agreement that the respondent would enjoy having a job even without needing the money; the 1988 wording is slightly shorter.
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: 13% answered “Neither agree nor disagree” in GSS: Would enjoy a paying job even if money not needed, 2016.
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.
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 5 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Would enjoy a paying job even if money not needed.
Groups differ from everyone by 5 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Would enjoy a paying job even if money not needed.
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: Would enjoy a job even if money weren't needed | Would enjoy a job even if money weren't needed Do you agree or disagree ...
J. I would enjoy having a job even if I didn't need the money. Caveat: Slightly shorter 1988 wording; same 5-point scale | equivalent | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| GSS: Would enjoy a paying job even if money not needed | Would enjoy a paying job even if money not needed Thinking of work in general, please circle one number for each statement below to show how much you agree or disagree with each.
B. I would enjoy having a paying job even if I did not need that money Caveat: Reference wording; asked in a work-attitudes battery, so context differs from the 1988 item | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |