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Preferred level of immigration from Asia, asked with a five-point scale and a three-point scale that can be collapsed to increase/same/decrease.
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: 18% answered “Increase” in GSS: Immigration from Asia should increase or decrease, 2024.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Immigration from Asia should increase or decrease → mixed mode (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.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. GSS: Immigration from Asia should increase or decrease → mixed mode (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 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: Immigration from Asia should increase or decrease | Immigration from Asia should increase or decrease What about the number of immigrants from Asia? (Should it be increased a lot, increased a little, left the same as it is now, decreased a little, or decreased a lot?) Caveat: Five-point scale collapsed to three; intensity (a lot/a little) is lost. | equivalent | Increased a lot → Increase; Increased a little → Increase; Left the same as it is now → Left the same; Decreased a little → Decrease; Decreased a lot → Decrease |
| GSS: Immigration from Asia should increase or decrease | Immigration from Asia should increase or decrease Do you think the number of immigrants from Asia who are permitted to come to the United States to live should be decreased, increased or left the same? Caveat: Three-point version; code order differs (1=decreased), and no intensity. | equivalent | Decreased → Decrease; Increased → Increase; Left the same → Left the same |