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How important it is that a job is useful to society, 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: 88% answered “Important” in GSS: Importance of a job that is useful to society, 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 3 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of a job that is useful to society.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
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| GSS: Importance of a job that is useful to society | Importance of a job that is useful to society 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:
H. A job that is useful to society? Caveat: 5-point labeled scale; 'very important' and 'important' are merged | equivalent | Very important → Important; Important → Important; Neither important nor unimportant → Neither/middle; Not important → Not important; Not important at all → Not important |
| GSS: Importance of a job useful to society | Importance of a job useful to society 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.
K. A job that is useful to society Caveat: 7-point scale with only endpoints labeled; collapsed cutpoints are approximate | similar | Unimportant → Not important; 2 → Not important; 3 → Not important; 4 → Neither/middle; 5 → Important; 6 → Important; Very important → Important |
Groups differ from everyone by 2 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Importance of a job that is useful to society.
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.