matesex
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 1542. Was one of the partners your husband or wife or regular sexual partner?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | no | no answer | yes | don't know | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1470 | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 409 | 88 | 11 | 973 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 444 | 90 | 15 | 988 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 429 | 75 | 23 | 845 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 511 | 84 | 38 | 884 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 427 | 80 | 44 | 1055 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 809 | 185 | 80 | 1918 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 756 | 182 | 64 | 1902 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 895 | 186 | 52 | 1699 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 938 | 174 | 90 | 1615 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1000 | 181 | 43 | 1540 | 1 | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1013 | 128 | 34 | 1637 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2693 | 194 | 14 | 1609 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 659 | 143 | 20 | 1200 | 1 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 632 | 117 | 20 | 1274 | 1 | 2044 |
| 2012 | 643 | 106 | 32 | 1193 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 727 | 167 | 51 | 1593 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1506 | 147 | 20 | 1194 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 1301 | 101 | 15 | 931 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 2307 | 130 | 20 | 1567 | 8 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2366 | 111 | 41 | 1003 | 23 | 3544 |
| Total | 42340 | 2669 | 727 | 26620 | 34 | 72390 |
1 yes
2 no
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