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Perceived danger of nuclear power stations in general, asked by the GSS in 1993-2018 under one variable name and again in 2021 under a new one, with the same five-point scale.
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: 24% answered “Not very/not at all dangerous” in GSS: Danger of nuclear power stations to the environment, 2021.
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 9 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Danger of nuclear power stations to the environment.
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Danger of nuclear power stations to the environment.
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: Danger of nuclear power stations to the environment | Danger of nuclear power stations to the environment A. In general, do you think that nuclear power stations are… Caveat: Reference question; asked 1993-2018; collapsed five points to three | identical | Extremely dangerous → Extremely/very dangerous; Very dangerous → Extremely/very dangerous; Somewhat dangerous → Somewhat dangerous; Not very dangerous → Not very/not at all dangerous; Not dangerous at all → Not very/not at all dangerous |
| GSS: Danger of nuclear power stations to the environment | Danger of nuclear power stations to the environment And do you think that nuclear power stations are… Caveat: Same scale, new variable name in 2021; slightly different lead-in wording ('And do you think') and possible context change | equivalent | Extremely dangerous → Extremely/very dangerous; Very dangerous → Extremely/very dangerous; Somewhat dangerous → Somewhat dangerous; Not very dangerous → Not very/not at all dangerous; Not dangerous at all → Not very/not at all dangerous |