World Values Survey 2011, Wave 6
United States, 2011
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The world is better off, or worse off, because of science and technology (V197)
Data file: WV6_Data_Spss_v20180912
Overview
Valid:
2187
Invalid:
45
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
10
Mean:
7.48605395518976
Standard deviation:
2.11606548592638
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
459
End:
460
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -5 | SE:Inapplicable ; RU:Inappropriate response; HT: Dropped ou | 0 |
0%
|
| -4 | Not asked in survey | 0 |
0%
|
| -3 | Not applicable | 0 |
0%
|
| -2 | No answer | 0 |
0%
|
| -1 | Don´t know | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | A lot worse off | 40 |
1.8%
|
| 2 | 2 | 24 |
1.1%
|
| 3 | 3 | 33 |
1.5%
|
| 4 | 4 | 66 |
3%
|
| 5 | 5 | 256 |
11.7%
|
| 6 | 6 | 207 |
9.5%
|
| 7 | 7 | 334 |
15.3%
|
| 8 | 8 | 457 |
20.9%
|
| 9 | 9 | 295 |
13.5%
|
| 10 | A lot better off | 475 |
21.7%
|
| Sysmiss | 45 |
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.
Interviewer instructions
Code one number.