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How proud respondents are to be American; the 1994 item uses an extremely/very/somewhat/not very scale and the 2004-2014 item uses a very/somewhat/not very/not at all scale, so compare only collapsed proud versus not proud shares.
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: 98% answered “Proud” in GSS: How proud of being American, 2014.
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: Pride in being American | Pride in being American How proud are you to be an American . . . extremely proud, very proud, somewhat proud, or not very proud? Caveat: Different scale (extremely to not very); no 'not at all' option; compare only collapsed proud vs not proud | similar | Extremely proud → Proud; Very proud → Proud; Somewhat proud → Proud; Not very proud → Not proud |
| GSS: How proud of being American | How proud of being American How proud are you of being American? (Please, select one response) Caveat: Different scale (very to not at all) and includes 'not American' option; compare only collapsed proud vs not proud | similar | Very proud → Proud; Somewhat proud → Proud; Not very proud → Not proud; Not proud at all → Not proud |