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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 30. Thinking about the time when you were 16 years old, compared with American families in general then, would you say your family income was far below average, below average, average, above average, or far above average?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | above average | average | below average | don't know | far above average | far below average | lived in institution | no answer | iap | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 166 | 906 | 388 | 15 | 20 | 111 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 192 | 857 | 313 | 15 | 22 | 92 | 8 | 5 | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 193 | 784 | 367 | 8 | 25 | 104 | - | 3 | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 196 | 783 | 370 | 7 | 20 | 106 | - | 8 | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 188 | 763 | 403 | 14 | 21 | 106 | - | 4 | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 203 | 789 | 369 | 13 | 27 | 126 | - | 3 | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 182 | 829 | 361 | 13 | 22 | 123 | - | 2 | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 230 | 751 | 339 | 11 | 19 | 116 | - | 2 | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 233 | 948 | 440 | 18 | 38 | 179 | - | 4 | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 253 | 826 | 354 | 17 | 25 | 120 | - | 4 | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 205 | 773 | 346 | 7 | 6 | 127 | - | 9 | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 241 | 777 | 358 | 12 | 34 | 106 | - | 6 | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 245 | 738 | 329 | 15 | 31 | 109 | - | 3 | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 256 | 880 | 454 | 13 | 44 | 164 | - | 8 | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 229 | 747 | 349 | 14 | 23 | 114 | - | 5 | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 216 | 798 | 350 | 13 | 23 | 134 | - | 3 | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 216 | 651 | 342 | 12 | 22 | 126 | - | 3 | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 252 | 736 | 348 | 15 | 29 | 127 | - | 10 | - | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 252 | 795 | 393 | 12 | 34 | 116 | - | 4 | - | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 243 | 798 | 317 | 16 | 26 | 120 | - | 2 | 1470 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2904 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2832 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2817 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 345 | 933 | 432 | 21 | 36 | 151 | - | 3 | 844 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 377 | 1151 | 637 | 35 | 58 | 237 | - | 5 | 312 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 475 | 1303 | 754 | 43 | 49 | 321 | - | 47 | 1518 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 330 | 907 | 506 | 31 | 44 | 203 | - | 2 | - | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 353 | 843 | 550 | 34 | 51 | 206 | - | 7 | - | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 304 | 875 | 523 | 38 | 47 | 181 | - | 6 | - | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 403 | 1118 | 656 | 30 | 56 | 271 | - | 4 | - | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 501 | 1146 | 794 | 53 | 58 | 303 | - | 12 | - | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 371 | 995 | 641 | 38 | 50 | 245 | - | 8 | - | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 679 | 1625 | 1013 | 119 | 88 | 421 | - | - | 71 | 16 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 540 | 1543 | 936 | 40 | 88 | 369 | - | 13 | 8 | 7 | 3544 |
| Total | 9069 | 28368 | 14732 | 742 | 1136 | 5334 | 10 | 200 | 12776 | 23 | 72390 |
1 far below average
2 below average
3 average
4 above average
5 far above average
7 lived in institution
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