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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 27a. If not living with both own mother and father: What happened?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | father absent in armed forces | no answer | one or both parents died | one or both parents in institution | other | parents divorced or separated | don't know | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1174 | 1 | 1 | 199 | 2 | 21 | 106 | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1126 | 1 | 3 | 208 | - | 25 | 121 | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1140 | - | 1 | 183 | 2 | 24 | 137 | 3 | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1139 | 1 | 9 | 215 | 2 | 11 | 121 | 1 | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1133 | 1 | 5 | 215 | 4 | 25 | 144 | 3 | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1157 | - | 2 | 202 | 2 | 34 | 132 | 3 | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1070 | 1 | 2 | 217 | - | 46 | 131 | 1 | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1334 | 1 | 6 | 230 | 2 | 55 | 226 | 6 | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1225 | - | 3 | 187 | 1 | 24 | 157 | 2 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1100 | - | 24 | 169 | 2 | 36 | 137 | 5 | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1160 | - | 1 | 173 | 1 | 46 | 144 | 9 | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1082 | 1 | 20 | 165 | - | 41 | 160 | 1 | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1316 | 3 | 28 | 195 | 1 | 73 | 197 | 6 | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 1072 | 1 | 14 | 157 | 1 | 44 | 183 | 9 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 1153 | - | 10 | 139 | 2 | 57 | 173 | 3 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 992 | 1 | 7 | 143 | 1 | 52 | 171 | 5 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 1102 | 1 | 7 | 165 | 1 | 41 | 194 | 6 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 1192 | - | - | 143 | - | 72 | 192 | 7 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 2101 | 2 | 21 | 303 | 1 | 125 | 430 | 9 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 2012 | - | 34 | 271 | 4 | 145 | 433 | 5 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 1959 | 3 | 50 | 231 | 5 | 142 | 430 | 12 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 1936 | 2 | 92 | 238 | 8 | 134 | 398 | 9 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1861 | 2 | 8 | 232 | 8 | 166 | 485 | 3 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1967 | 3 | 9 | 192 | 4 | 162 | 473 | 2 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 3603 | 1 | 4 | 217 | 15 | 155 | 512 | 3 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 1375 | 1 | 2 | 163 | 4 | 119 | 357 | 2 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 1358 | 3 | 5 | 151 | 7 | 129 | 388 | 3 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 1303 | 5 | 2 | 130 | 7 | 155 | 369 | 3 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 1672 | 3 | 4 | 154 | 11 | 176 | 514 | 4 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1845 | 4 | 12 | 195 | 13 | 215 | 581 | 2 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 1499 | 7 | 8 | 157 | 16 | 173 | 483 | 5 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 3776 | 3 | - | 66 | 7 | 29 | 149 | - | 2 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2950 | 4 | 5 | 152 | 8 | 76 | 344 | 4 | 1 | 3544 |
| Total | 53497 | 56 | 399 | 6157 | 142 | 2828 | 9172 | 136 | 3 | 72390 |
1 one or both parents died
2 parents divorced or separated
3 father absent in armed forces
4 one or both parents in institution
5 other
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