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Whether government should ensure a decent standard of living for the unemployed, asked as a government-responsibility item with no middle option and as an agree/disagree statement whose neutral option draws about a quarter of answers and lowers its support share, so compare trends within each line rather than levels across 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: 25% answered “Oppose” in GSS: Government should provide for the unemployed, 2021.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Government should provide for the unemployed → web (2021).
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.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Government should provide for the unemployed → web (2021).
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 9 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government responsibility for the unemployed's living standard.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Government responsibility for the unemployed's living standard | Government responsibility for the unemployed's living standard On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to . . .
F. Provide a decent standard of living for the unemployed. Caveat: Responsibility wording with a 4-point scale and no neutral option; the middle category is unused. | equivalent | Definitely should be → Support; Probably should be → Support; Probably should not be → Oppose; Definitely should not be → Oppose |
| GSS: Government should provide for the unemployed | Government should provide for the unemployed Do you agree or disagree?
F. The government should provide a decent standard of living for the unemployed. Caveat: Agree/disagree format with an explicit neutral option; acquiescence may differ from the responsibility item. | equivalent | Strongly agree → Support; Agree → Support; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither/mixed; Disagree → Oppose; Strongly disagree → Oppose |
Groups differ from everyone by 8 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government responsibility for the unemployed's living standard.
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.