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GSS items on whether government should or should not provide jobs for everyone who wants one; one uses a responsibility scale and the other agree/disagree wording.
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: 12% answered “Strongly favor government providing jobs” in GSS: Government responsibility to provide jobs for all, 2016.
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: Government responsibility to provide jobs for all.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Government should provide a job for everyone | Government should provide a job for everyone Do you agree or disagree?
D. The government should provide a job for everyone who wants one. Caveat: Agree/disagree scale with explicit neutral midpoint | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly favor government providing jobs; Agree → Somewhat favor; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither / neutral; Disagree → Somewhat oppose; Strongly disagree → Strongly oppose government providing jobs |
| GSS: Government responsibility to provide jobs for all | Government responsibility to provide jobs for all On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to . . .
A. Provide a job for everyone who wants one. Caveat: Responsibility wording with no neutral option; 'definitely/probably' intensity rather than agree/disagree | equivalent | Definitely should be → Strongly favor government providing jobs; Probably should be → Somewhat favor; Probably should not be → Somewhat oppose; Definitely should not be → Strongly oppose government providing jobs |
Groups differ from everyone by 9 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government responsibility to provide jobs for all.
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.