SGER: Replication of Questions on Inequality in the 2008 General Social Survey

SES-0749243 Leslie McCallNorthwestern University收入不平等程度的上升伴随着经济全球化的快速步伐。 根据美国人口普查数据，收入不平等在1980年代开始迅速增加，在1990年底达到高峰，在过去五年中又开始上升。与此同时，关于人们对收入不平等加剧的看法的数据很少。 因此，人们经常假设美国人不关心收入不平等。PI寻求支持，以纳入2008年综合社会调查的一个模块，该模块复制了有关收入不平等态度的问题。 本单元中的问题侧重于收入不平等与其他调查往往涉及的一般不平等。 这些问题提供的数据涉及到以前关于收入不平等信念的研究中开发的几个理论主题，例如现有不平等水平的适当性以及收入不平等的公平性，功能性和益处。PI要求对2008年GSS调查的实地问题提供支持。 这些问题于1987年第一次提出，然后在1992年、1996年和2000年作为国际社会调查方案社会不平等模块的一部分再次提出。 由于社会统计一般调查/社会支助项目的问题只重复了四次，而且自2000年以来没有重复过，因此数据系列在反映收入不平等持续加剧方面的作用受到严重限制。 将这些问题列入2008年一般统计调查，这是一般统计调查小组设计的开始，将使调查能够收集关于收入不平等观点的纵向数据，从而增加这一数据系列的价值。 对社会统计总局/社会科学研究所关于收入不平等的问题的复制，增加了不平等模块系列，并捕捉了对一种现象的态度信息，这种现象在过去20年中在国内和全球都在稳步增加。 将收入不平等问题纳入2008年（以及未来的小组调查）将增加一般统计调查作为关于不平等加剧（或减少）的信息来源的有用性。 这些态度可以根据有关持续的社会、经济和政治变化的信息进行分析。 所收集的数据将与所有公开的社会保障总司数据一起沿着提供给公众，从而能够广泛获得对收入不平等态度的分析。

SES- 0749243Leslie McCallNorthwestern University Rising levels of income inequality are accompanying the rapid pace of economic globalization. According to United States census data income inequality began to increase rapidly in the 1980's, reaching its plateau in late 1990, and started to rise again over the past five years. Meanwhile, there is little data on people's views about rising income inequality. As a result, the assumption is often made that Americans do not care about income inequality. The PI seeks support to include a module on the 2008 General Social Survey (GSS) that replicates questions on attitudes about income inequality. The questions in this module are focused on income inequality versus general inequality that other surveys have tended to address. These questions provide data that speak to several theoretical themes developed in previous research on beliefs about income inequality, for example the appropriateness of existing levels of inequality and the fairness, functionality, and benefits of income inequality. The PI is requesting support to field questions on the 2008 GSS survey. The questions were first asked in 1987 and then again in 1992, 1996 and 2000 as part of the Social Inequality Modules of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Since the GSS/ISSP questions have only been replicated four time, and not since 2000, the usefulness of the data series to capture the continuing rise in income inequality is severely limited. Inclusion of these questions on the 2008 GSS, which is the start of the GSS panel design, will allow the Survey to collect longitudinal data on views of income inequality, thus increasing the value of this data series. The replication of the GSS/ISSP questions on income inequality adds to the Inequality Module series and captures attitudinal information of a phenomenon, which has been steadily increasing both domestically and globally over the past 20 years. The inclusion of income inequality questions on the 2008 (and future panel surveys) will increase the usefulness of the GSS as a source of information on beliefs about rising (or declining) inequality. These attitudes can be analyzed relative to information on continuing social, economic and political changes. Data collected will be available to the general public along with all publicly available GSS data, enabling widespread access for analysis of attitudes toward income inequality.