Worker’s expectations about losing and replacing their jobs: 35 years of change

The study was based on data from one of the most widely used academic research archives for American social behavior: the General Social Survey (GSS). The nationwide survey, broadly similar from year to year, has been conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago almost every year since 1972. Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the GSS uses face-to-face interviews at the homes of English-speaking people 18 years or older living in noninstitutionalized arrangements in the continental United States.3 The results of each survey are representative of the adult population of the United States, as Charles N. Weaver cweaver@stmarytx.edu