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How close feel to whites
Variable: closewht
Module:
Core
Subject:
Ethnicity
,
Race
,
Whites
Related Variables
closeblk ethclose ethsame ethdiff teacheth schleth whoteach ethorgs whtgovt blkgovt hspgovt asngovt owneth congeth gvtapart gvtmelt meltpot ethignor ethnofit ethtrads ethadapt ethhist ethimp ethid amissue ethissue ethid1 amissue1 ethissu1 natborn ethnic eth1 eth2 eth3 ethnum hispanic spethnic speth1 speth2 speth3 spethnum race color ratetone racesee racedbtf raceself racecen1 racecen2 racecen3 difrace1 difrace2 difrace3 racchurh racmeet ethspkok ethspkno racavoid blkinflu racsups racnobuy busing busing10 ethchng blkgains mostcom leastcom blksimp racocc racinc racjob racopnow wrkwayup oprace racwork racpush racseg symptblk admirblk racfirm frndrac1 frndrac2 frndrac3 frndrac4 frndrac5 numbwfrd bwfriend racdin rachome hswht hseth racimp racinfo rachisch racinteg racmar racmar10 racmarel racmarpr forbdmar allowmar racpromo hlpminr hlpminfg helpblk racneigh neieth1 neieth2 neieth3 neieth4 neieth5 neieth6 neieth7 neieth8 neieth9 neieth10 neieth11 neieth12 neieth13 neieth14 racopen racsubs racsubgv racparty racname racpres racmix race1 race2 race3 race4 race5 racschol racfew rachaf racmost racteach racchng racquit trtmyrac ractrust racdif1 racdif2 racdif3 racdif4 raclive racclos racdis racobjct farewhts workwhts fairwhts famwhts influwht intlwhts patrwhts violwhts wlthwhts whtsdiff comwht uswht feelwhts knwwht whtcls whtschl whtcom whtrel whtwrk trtwhite acqwkwht acqfmwht acqwhite acqnhwht acqvawht liveno livewhts whtchng marno marwht more...
Survey Questions
Questions associated with this variable:

In the past few years, do you think conditions for black people have improved, gotten worse, or stayed about the same?
B. And in general, how close do you feel to Whites?

Year Availability
Available in 12 of 32 years total. Hover over a year to see ballot information.
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Summary by Year
Showing All Years
Code Label
1 Not at all close
2
3
4
5 Neither one or the other
6
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9 Very close
98 Don't know
99 No answer
0 Not applicable
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
12 23 32 7 8 19 22 26 21 22 25 0
7 17 18 10 4 21 13 21 10 15 15 0
18 29 18 15 8 38 26 16 16 23 24 0
19 35 29 26 13 37 24 32 33 41 47 0
308 566 511 276 301 688 417 374 399 506 550 0
55 139 84 45 58 129 88 95 108 138 120 0
131 270 235 123 132 277 202 171 183 249 293 0
114 220 247 118 122 232 162 164 158 230 235 0
292 517 591 300 245 555 380 366 369 478 571 0
8 27 10 2 6 6 15 9 8 8 3 0
8 39 86 2 1 1 3 7 3 4 6 0
1932 950 956 1841 1914 2507 671 763 666 824 978 2348
Summary Statistics
Valid cases 15822
Missing cases 46644