GSS 1972-2021 Cumulative Datafile

It is the responsibility of private companies to reduce the 
differences in pay between their employees with high pay and 
those with low pay.

From the following list, who do you think should have the 
greatest responsibility for reducing differences in income 
between people with high incomes and people with low incomes?

To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following 
statement: Most politicians in America do not care about 
reducing the differences in income between people with high 
incomes and people with low incomes.

How successful do you think the government in America is 
nowadays in reducing the differences in income between people 
with high incomes and people with low incomes?

How do you feel when you think about differences in wealth 
between the rich and the poor in America?

People from poor countries should be allowed to work in wealthy 
countries.

(In all countries, there are differences or even conflicts 
between different social groups. In your opinion, in America how 
much conflict is there between . . .) People born in America and 
people from other countries who have come to live in America?

In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top 
and groups which tend to be towards the bottom. On the handcard 
is a scale that runs from top to bottom. Where would you put 
yourself now on this scale?