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Agreement that immigrants make America more open to new ideas and cultures, or improve American society by bringing them, from GSS five-point agree/disagree items in 1996, 2004, 2014, and 2024.
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: 65% answered “Agree” in GSS: Immigrants improve society with new ideas and cultures, 2024.
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.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Immigrants make America more open to new ideas and cultures | Immigrants make America more open to new ideas and cultures There are different opinions about immigrants from other countries living in America. (By "immigrants" we mean people who come to settle in America.) How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?
D. Immigrants make America more open to new ideas and cultures Caveat: Wording 'more open to new ideas and cultures' vs 'improve society' | equivalent | Agree strongly → Agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Disagree strongly → Disagree |
| GSS: Immigrants improve society with new ideas and cultures | Immigrants improve society with new ideas and cultures How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?...
Immigrants improve American society by bringing new ideas and cultures. Caveat: Reference wording | identical | Agree strongly → Agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Disagree strongly → Disagree |
| GSS: Immigrants improve American society with new ideas | Immigrants improve American society with new ideas There are different opinions about immigrants from other countries living in America. (By "immigrants" we mean people who come to settle in America) How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? (Please, select one response)
A. Immigrants improve American society by bringing in new ideas and cultures Caveat: Same wording as reference; different survey context | identical | Agree strongly → Agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Disagree strongly → Disagree |