Example subset of the GSS Cumulative Data File 1972-2022

A tibble containing just a few variables from the GSS Cumulative Data File. See http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation for full documentation of the variables.

data(gss_sub)

Format

A tibble with 72,390 rows and 19 columns.

year

Year of the survey.

id

Respondent id.

ballot

Survey ballot

age

Age of respondent

race

Race of respondent

sex

Sex of respondent

degree

Highest level of education obtained

padeg

Father's education

padeg

Mother's education

relig

Religion (simple coding)

Polviews

Political views

fefam

Response to a statement that it is better for man to go out to work, and for a woman to tend the home

vpsu

Variance primary sampling unit

vstrat

Variance stratum

oversamp

Weights for black oversamples

formwt

Survey weight for experimental randomization

wtssall

Survey weight (1972-2018)

wtssps

Poststratification survey weight (1972-2022)

sampcode

Sampling error code

sample

Sampling frame and method

Source

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