Data Dictionary for the GSS Cumulative Data File 1972-2022

A tibble containing information on the variables in the GSS Cumulative Data File.

data(gss_dict)

Format

A tibble.

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.)

missing

Number of missing observations. (Integer.)

var_doc_label

The variable's label, per the Berkeley SDA web pages. Should correspond directly to label. (Character)

value_labels

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

var_text

The text of the question asked of the respondent. (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. (List.)

var_yrtab

Crosstab of responses by year. Stored in a list-column. The tibbles contain year values in the rows and value labels across their columns, with response freqencies in the cells as counts. (List.)

var_ballots

Crosstab of ballots by year. Stored in a list-column. The tibbles contain year values in the rows and iap and the ballots labels across the columns. Counts in iap mean the question was not asked that year, or the ballot system was not used. Cells are the number of respondents, if any. (Grouped tibble.)

col_type

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

var_type

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

var_na_codes

The missing value codes associated with the variable in gss_all. (Character.)

Source

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