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GSS items on whether government spending on education should rise or fall, or is too little or too much, across the standard battery and the 1984 alternate wording; the scales differ and need collapsing.
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: 79% answered “More / too little” in GSS: Government spending on education, 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 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government spending on education.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Spending on improving the education system, alternate wording | Spending on improving the education system, alternate wording We are faced with many problems in this country, none of which can be solved easily or inexpensively. I'm going to name some of these problems, and for each one I'd like you to tell me whether you think we're spending too much money on it, too little money, or about the right amount. First (READ ITEM A) . . . are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on (ITEM)?
G. Improving the nation's education system Caveat: Assesses current spending (too little/too much) on 'improving the nation's education system' | equivalent | Too little → More / too little; About right → Same / about right; Too much → Less / too much |
| GSS: Government spending on education | Government spending on education Listed below are various areas of government spending. Please indicate whether you would like to see more or less government spending in each area. Remember that if you say "much more," it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
D. Education. Caveat: Asks preferred more/less spending with a tax cue; 5-point scale collapsed to 3 | similar | Spend much more → More / too little; Spend more → More / too little; Spend same → Same / about right; Spend less → Less / too much; Spend much less → Less / too much |
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government spending on education.
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.