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Rating of how dangerous pesticides and chemicals used in farming are for the environment in general, GSS 1993-2018 and the 2021 re-ask under a new variable name.
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: 23% answered “Extremely dangerous” in GSS: Danger of farm pesticides 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 6 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Danger of farm pesticides to the environment.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Danger of farm pesticides to the environment | Danger of farm pesticides to the environment A. In general, do you think that pesticides and chemicals used in farming are... Caveat: Reference question; 'not very' and 'not at all' collapsed into one category | identical | Extremely dangerous → Extremely dangerous; Very dangerous → Very dangerous; Somewhat dangerous → Somewhat dangerous; Not very dangerous → Not dangerous (not very / not at all); Not dangerous at all → Not dangerous (not very / not at all) |
| GSS: Danger of farm pesticides to the environment | Danger of farm pesticides to the environment And do you think that pesticides and chemicals used in farming are… Caveat: 2021 re-ask under new variable name; wording 'And do you think...' omits 'In general' framing and may reflect different context/mode | equivalent | Extremely dangerous → Extremely dangerous; Very dangerous → Very dangerous; Somewhat dangerous → Somewhat dangerous; Not very dangerous → Not dangerous (not very / not at all); Not dangerous at all → Not dangerous (not very / not at all) |
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Danger of farm pesticides 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.