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How important good opportunities for advancement or promotion are in a job, from the GSS's five-point item (1989-2016) and a 1991 four-point item asking workers how important the opportunity to be promoted is to them.
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: 50% answered “Very important” in GSS: Importance of advancement opportunities in a job, 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 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of advancement opportunities in a job.
Groups differ from everyone by 5 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of advancement opportunities in a job.
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: Importance of opportunity for promotion at work | Importance of opportunity for promotion at work How important to you is the opportunity to be promoted? Is it… Caveat: 4-point scale; asks about promotion directly; 'does not apply' excluded | similar | Very important → Very important; Important → Somewhat important; Somewhat important → Somewhat important; Not at all important → Not important |
| GSS: Importance of advancement opportunities in a job | Importance of advancement opportunities in a job On the following list there are various aspects of jobs. Please circle one number to show how important you personally consider it is in a job:
C. Good opportunities for advancement? Caveat: 5-point scale; 'important' and 'neither' both collapsed into the middle category | equivalent | Very important → Very important; Important → Somewhat important; Neither important nor unimportant → Somewhat important; Not important → Not important; Not important at all → Not important |