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Preferred government spending on the environment, from the ISSP more-or-less item (1985–2016), which reminds respondents that 'much more' might require a tax increase, and the 1984 GSS too little/about right/too much item; the formats differ, so compare trends within each line rather than levels across them.
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: 48% answered “Spend more / too little” in GSS: Government spending on the environment, 2016.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 10 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government spending on the environment.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Spending on improving the environment, alternate wording | Spending on improving the environment, 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)?
B. Improving and protecting the environment Caveat: Judges current spending (too little/too much), not desired change; 3-point scale | similar | Too little → Spend more / too little; About right → Spend same / about right; Too much → Spend less / too much |
| GSS: Government spending on the environment | Government spending on the environment 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.
A. The environment. Caveat: 5-point more/less scale collapsed to 3; tax-increase reminder in wording | equivalent | Spend much more → Spend more / too little; Spend more → Spend more / too little; Spend same → Spend same / about right; Spend less → Spend less / too much; Spend much less → Spend less / too much |
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government spending on the environment.
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.