Data Dictionary for the GSS Cumulative Data File 1972-2018

Source: R/data.R

A tibble containing information on the variables in the GSS Cumulative Data File. This is a more compact version of the gss_doc codebook. See http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation for full documentation of the variables.

data(gss_dict)

Format

A tibble with rows and columns.

pos

Column-index position of the variable in gss_all. (Integer.)

variable

The name of the variable. (Character.)

label

The variable's label. 'r' means 'Respondent'. (Character.)

col_type

The column type of the variable in gss_all. (Character.)

value_labels

The value labels and associated numeric values for the variable. Numeric values are given in square brackets. (Character.)

years

Which years the question was asked. This information is stored as a tibble in a list column. The tibble contains a column for the year and a TRUE/FALSE coumn for present.

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.