joblose
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 180a. Thinking about the next 12 months, how likely do you think it is that you will lose your job or be laid off?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | don't know | fairly likely | leaving labor force | no answer | not likely | not too likely | very likely | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 609 | 16 | 54 | 5 | 4 | 586 | 219 | 37 | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 638 | 9 | 33 | - | 5 | 629 | 182 | 36 | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 795 | 24 | 79 | - | 10 | 593 | 283 | 76 | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 654 | 15 | 72 | - | 5 | 564 | 233 | 56 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 583 | 10 | 42 | - | 9 | 609 | 218 | 63 | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 595 | 19 | 57 | - | 6 | 571 | 191 | 31 | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 862 | 7 | 27 | - | 2 | 405 | 153 | 25 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 921 | 5 | 23 | - | 3 | 424 | 136 | 25 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 770 | 9 | 33 | - | 1 | 395 | 145 | 19 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 907 | 6 | 40 | - | 1 | 374 | 152 | 37 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 925 | 9 | 54 | - | 4 | 405 | 179 | 30 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 1681 | 15 | 58 | - | 12 | 807 | 347 | 72 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 1531 | 24 | 91 | - | 9 | 812 | 378 | 59 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 1571 | 20 | 53 | - | 9 | 806 | 327 | 46 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 1561 | 19 | 53 | - | 10 | 860 | 270 | 44 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 2180 | 4 | 41 | - | 4 | 360 | 139 | 37 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1879 | 11 | 49 | - | 15 | 573 | 237 | 48 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 3284 | 14 | 77 | - | 11 | 763 | 312 | 49 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 1169 | 6 | 52 | - | 11 | 487 | 250 | 48 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 1220 | 8 | 68 | - | 15 | 414 | 263 | 56 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 1186 | 7 | 47 | - | 15 | 460 | 216 | 43 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 1505 | 5 | 57 | - | 3 | 642 | 289 | 37 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1735 | 5 | 43 | - | 11 | 733 | 298 | 42 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 1379 | 10 | 41 | - | 11 | 682 | 201 | 24 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 2498 | - | 92 | - | 33 | 750 | 619 | 34 | 6 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2138 | 9 | 80 | - | 2 | 873 | 392 | 46 | 4 | 3544 |
| Total | 47126 | 286 | 1416 | 5 | 221 | 15577 | 6629 | 1120 | 10 | 72390 |
1 very likely
2 fairly likely
3 not too likely
4 not likely
5 leaving labor force
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