World Values Survey 2006, Wave 5
United States, 2006
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The world is better off, or worse off, because of science an (V123)
Data file: WV5_Data_United_States_2006_Spss_v20180912
Overview
Valid:
1217
Invalid:
32
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
10
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
335
End:
336
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
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Literal question
V123. All things considered, would you say that the world is better off, or worse off, because of science and technology? Please tell me which comes closest to your view on this scale: 1 means that "the world is a lot worse off," and 10 means that "the world is a lot better off."
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A lot worse off | 23 |
1.9%
|
| 2 | 2 | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 3 | 3 | 21 |
1.7%
|
| 4 | 4 | 41 |
3.4%
|
| 5 | 5 | 163 |
13.4%
|
| 6 | 6 | 152 |
12.5%
|
| 7 | 7 | 233 |
19.1%
|
| 8 | 8 | 280 |
23%
|
| 9 | 9 | 120 |
9.9%
|
| 10 | A lot better off | 180 |
14.8%
|
| -5 | Missing; Unknown | 24 | |
| -4 | Not asked | 0 | |
| -3 | Not applicable | 0 | |
| -2 | No answer | 8 | |
| -1 | Don´t know | 0 |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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