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How important it is that a job has flexible hours or lets people set their own work times; the wording is similar but not identical.
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: 35% answered “Important” in GSS: Importance of a job letting you set your work times, 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 6 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of flexible hours in a job.
Groups differ from everyone by 5 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of flexible hours 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 flexible hours in a job | Importance of flexible hours 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:
I. A job with flexible working hours? Caveat: Reference wording (flexible working hours); the two lowest options are merged to fit the shared scale. | equivalent | Very impt → Very important; Impt → Important; Neither → Neither important nor unimportant; Not impt → Not important or not at all important; Not impt at all → Not important or not at all important |
| GSS: Importance of a job letting you set your work times | Importance of a job letting you set your work times (HAND CARD D2)
(For each of the following, please tell me how important you personally think it is in a job. How important is...)
...a job that allows someone to decide their times or days of work?
(Would you say...) Caveat: Wording asks about deciding one's own times or days of work, not flexible hours; it is also a different mode (interview with show card vs. self-completed). | similar | Very important → Very important; Important → Important; Neither important nor unimportant → Neither important nor unimportant; Not important → Not important or not at all important; Not important at all → Not important or not at all important |