Subjective class identification

class

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 185a. If you were asked to use one of four names for your social class, which would you say you belong in: the lower class, the working class, the middle class, or the upper class?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	lower class	middle class	no answer	upper class	working class	iap	don't know	no class	skipped on web	Total
1972	104	704	9	36	760	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	27	342	5	21	358	751	-	-	-	1504
1974	64	676	9	46	689	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	72	655	7	41	714	-	1	-	-	1490
1976	65	711	6	23	692	-	2	-	-	1499
1977	67	648	11	59	743	-	1	1	-	1530
1978	83	693	3	36	715	-	2	-	-	1532
1980	75	663	5	50	673	-	2	-	-	1468
1982	105	760	9	61	918	-	7	-	-	1860
1983	46	349	5	30	374	795	-	-	-	1599
1984	66	670	11	47	679	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	62	720	5	59	688	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	95	683	8	48	631	-	5	-	-	1470
1987	108	793	10	70	816	-	22	-	-	1819
1988	77	701	1	36	662	-	4	-	-	1481
1989	76	740	5	60	654	-	2	-	-	1537
1990	57	640	5	43	623	-	4	-	-	1372
1991	81	744	8	35	649	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	106	720	13	49	713	-	5	-	-	1606
1994	148	1374	14	99	1353	-	4	-	-	2992
1996	169	1300	12	113	1302	-	8	-	-	2904
1998	153	1292	11	102	1270	-	4	-	-	2832
2000	142	1273	12	108	1280	-	2	-	-	2817
2002	167	1253	5	94	1231	-	15	-	-	2765
2004	191	1311	3	84	1213	-	10	-	-	2812
2006	191	1331	2	95	1354	1518	19	-	-	4510
2008	175	853	5	73	906	-	11	-	-	2023
2010	175	851	10	58	945	-	5	-	-	2044
2012	200	839	3	65	853	-	14	-	-	1974
2014	228	1065	8	66	1160	-	11	-	-	2538
2016	286	1146	8	81	1330	-	16	-	-	2867
2018	211	1019	6	83	1020	-	9	-	-	2348
2021	349	1999	1	169	1501	-	4	-	9	4032
2022	380	1496	7	162	1471	-	21	-	7	3544
Total	4601	31014	242	2302	30940	3064	210	1	16	72390

Values

• 1 lower class

• 2 working class

• 3 middle class

• 4 upper class

• 5 no class

• 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