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How important job security is in a job, on a 5-point scale in later years and a 7-point scale in 1982.
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: 1% answered “Unimportant” in GSS: Importance of job security in a job, 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 2 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of job security in a job.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Importance of job security in a job | Importance of job security in a job On these cards there are various aspects of jobs. How important Do you personally consider these job characteristics? Using the scale from one to seven for your answers again, tell me for each card its letter and the number you've decided on.
SHUFFLE THE PINK CARDS BEFORE HANDING TO RESPONDENT. Caveat: 7-point scale with only endpoints labeled; collapsed cut points are assumed | similar | Unimportant → Unimportant; 2 → Unimportant; 3 → Unimportant; 4 → Neither / middle; 5 → Important; 6 → Important; Very important → Important |
| GSS: Importance of job security in a job | Importance of job security 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:
A. Job security? Caveat: 5-point fully labeled scale; reference wording | identical | Very important → Important; Important → Important; Neither important nor unimportant → Neither / middle; Not important → Unimportant; Not important at all → Unimportant |
Groups differ from everyone by 2 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of job security 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.