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GSS items on government spending on health, in the standard more/less battery and the 1984 too little/too much alternate wording; the scales differ and need collapsing.
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Latest: 65% answered “Spend more / too little” in GSS: Government spending on health, 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 8 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government spending on health.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Spending on improving health, alternate wording | Spending on improving health, 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)?
C. Improving and protecting the nation's health Caveat: Too little/too much wording evaluates current spending; item is 'nation's health' | similar | Too little → Spend more / too little; About right → Spend same / about right; Too much → Spend less / too much |
| GSS: Government spending on health | Government spending on health 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.
B. Health. Caveat: Five-point more/less scale collapsed to three; prompt mentions tax increase | similar | 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 4 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Government spending on health.
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.