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Whether the respondent would prefer to work more hours for more money, the same, or fewer hours for less money; the GSS and SHED wordings differ slightly.
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: 4% answered “Work fewer hours for less money” in GSS, 2016.
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.
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.
Groups differ from everyone by 9 points on average across all answers, in GSS.
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS.
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 | Preference for work hours versus pay Think of the number of hours you work and the money you earn in your main job, including regular overtime.If you had only one of these three choices, which of the following would you prefer? Caveat: Reference wording; forced choice among three options, including regular overtime. | identical | Work longer hours and earn more money → Work more hours for more money; Work the same number of hours and earn the same money → Work the same hours; Work fewer hours and earn less money → Work fewer hours for less money |
| Fed SHED | Preference for working more or fewer hours at same pay rate If you were paid the same hourly rate that you make at your main job regardless of the number of hours you work, would you prefer to: Caveat: Specifies a constant hourly rate; option order differs from GSS (codes 1 and 2 are swapped). | equivalent | Work the same number of hours that you currently work → Work the same hours; Work more hours for more money → Work more hours for more money; Work fewer hours for less money → Work fewer hours for less money |