phone
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 243. Thank you very much for your time and help. Do you have a telephone?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | home phone | no answer | no phone number | phone elsewhere | refused phone number | phone location not given | cell phone | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | - | 1302 | 12 | 115 | 27 | 48 | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | - | 1277 | 6 | 117 | 26 | 48 | 10 | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | - | 1243 | 2 | 103 | 43 | 41 | 58 | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | - | 1272 | - | 153 | 9 | 47 | 18 | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | - | 1324 | 5 | 124 | 47 | 25 | 5 | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | - | 1359 | 1 | 87 | 40 | 31 | 14 | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | - | 1316 | 2 | 92 | 32 | 18 | 8 | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | - | 1609 | 6 | 131 | 38 | 44 | 32 | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | - | 1380 | 6 | 94 | 58 | 57 | 4 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | - | 1267 | 5 | 91 | 66 | 44 | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | - | 1374 | 1 | 71 | 38 | 50 | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | - | 1320 | 2 | 84 | 44 | 20 | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 1606 | 2 | 111 | 60 | 40 | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | - | 1336 | 2 | 70 | 42 | 31 | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | - | 1376 | 8 | 72 | 43 | 38 | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | - | 1239 | 9 | 63 | 38 | 23 | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | - | 1345 | 19 | 79 | 42 | 32 | - | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | - | 1463 | 5 | 55 | 54 | 29 | - | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | - | 2757 | 7 | 111 | 58 | 58 | 1 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | - | 2673 | - | 89 | 76 | 65 | 1 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | - | 2516 | 6 | 114 | 77 | 114 | 5 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | - | 2532 | 3 | 91 | 93 | 94 | 4 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | - | 2498 | - | 17 | 116 | 132 | 2 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | - | 2418 | 34 | 39 | 70 | 38 | 5 | 208 | 2812 |
| 2006 | - | 3753 | 6 | 25 | 85 | 190 | - | 451 | 4510 |
| 2008 | - | 1556 | 11 | 52 | 26 | 157 | - | 221 | 2023 |
| 2010 | - | 1172 | 2 | 19 | 93 | 71 | - | 687 | 2044 |
| 2012 | - | 984 | - | 11 | 78 | 69 | 1 | 831 | 1974 |
| 2014 | - | 1075 | 5 | 12 | 68 | 66 | - | 1312 | 2538 |
| 2016 | - | 1010 | - | 19 | 86 | 80 | - | 1672 | 2867 |
| 2018 | - | 713 | - | 15 | 35 | 89 | - | 1496 | 2348 |
| 2021 | - | - | 308 | 633 | - | 712 | - | 2379 | 4032 |
| 2022 | - | - | - | 595 | - | 489 | - | 2460 | 3544 |
| Total | 1613 | 50065 | 475 | 3554 | 1708 | 3090 | 168 | 11717 | 72390 |
1 no phone number
2 refused phone number
3 home phone
4 phone elsewhere
5 phone location not given
6 cell phone
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