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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 174. As you know, many older people share a home with their grown children. Do you think this is generally a good idea or a bad idea?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | a bad idea | a good idea | depends | don't know | no answer | not available in this year | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | - | 865 | 469 | 161 | 8 | 1 | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | - | 795 | 460 | 225 | 9 | 1 | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | - | 726 | 543 | 216 | 13 | 1 | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | - | 741 | 531 | 254 | 6 | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | - | 633 | 591 | 225 | 18 | 1 | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | - | 674 | 684 | 235 | 4 | 2 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | - | 531 | 734 | 194 | 11 | 3 | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | - | 686 | 592 | 182 | 10 | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 604 | 921 | 276 | 15 | 3 | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 484 | 406 | 440 | 142 | 7 | 2 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 502 | 410 | 437 | 176 | 11 | 1 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 473 | 337 | 396 | 151 | 15 | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 500 | 384 | 451 | 167 | 9 | 6 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 549 | 369 | 455 | 218 | 13 | 2 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 981 | 721 | 925 | 339 | 20 | 6 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 979 | 632 | 883 | 372 | 29 | 9 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 921 | 658 | 853 | 371 | 23 | 6 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 921 | 592 | 962 | 313 | 21 | 8 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1853 | 301 | 433 | 176 | 2 | - | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1936 | 258 | 431 | 184 | 2 | 1 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2521 | 614 | 937 | 428 | 10 | - | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 658 | 456 | 660 | 239 | 8 | 2 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 667 | 392 | 716 | 255 | 10 | 4 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 636 | 425 | 684 | 212 | 16 | 1 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 851 | 490 | 881 | 302 | 13 | 1 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 912 | 534 | 1118 | 284 | 15 | 4 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 785 | 432 | 874 | 245 | 11 | 1 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4032 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2355 | 281 | 642 | 251 | 13 | 2 | - | 3544 |
| Total | 27505 | 14947 | 18703 | 6793 | 342 | 68 | 4032 | 72390 |
1 a good idea
2 a bad idea
3 depends
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook