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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 217. There's been a lot of discussion about the way morals and attitudes about sex are changing in this country. If a man and woman have sex relations before marriage, do you think it is always wrong, almost always wrong, wrong only sometimes, or not wrong at all?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | almost always wrong | always wrong | don't know | no answer | not wrong at all | wrong only sometimes | iap | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 182 | 563 | 65 | 11 | 419 | 373 | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 181 | 472 | 48 | 7 | 439 | 337 | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 176 | 441 | 58 | 5 | 468 | 342 | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 141 | 459 | 39 | 10 | 541 | 340 | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 175 | 437 | 34 | 4 | 578 | 304 | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 152 | 520 | 55 | 11 | 763 | 359 | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 155 | 427 | 31 | 7 | 601 | 378 | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 123 | 422 | 48 | 4 | 643 | 294 | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 127 | 396 | 39 | 6 | 574 | 328 | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 102 | 251 | 27 | 6 | 388 | 214 | 493 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 84 | 272 | 31 | 4 | 394 | 221 | 531 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 103 | 229 | 32 | 3 | 356 | 205 | 444 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 98 | 274 | 28 | 3 | 435 | 186 | 493 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 106 | 283 | 27 | 3 | 443 | 218 | 526 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 192 | 496 | 60 | 10 | 830 | 389 | 1015 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 183 | 452 | 58 | 6 | 832 | 429 | 944 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 166 | 476 | 65 | 2 | 784 | 378 | 961 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 157 | 502 | 75 | 10 | 749 | 384 | 940 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 73 | 242 | 18 | 5 | 394 | 176 | 1857 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 79 | 238 | 18 | 5 | 409 | 157 | 1906 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 167 | 509 | 44 | 11 | 882 | 379 | 2518 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 90 | 305 | 30 | 6 | 692 | 206 | 694 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 116 | 305 | 21 | 5 | 742 | 241 | 614 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 72 | 273 | 33 | 14 | 704 | 206 | 672 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 111 | 324 | 18 | 9 | 956 | 257 | 863 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 100 | 389 | 25 | 10 | 1101 | 263 | 979 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 95 | 278 | 19 | 11 | 943 | 213 | 789 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 162 | 390 | 9 | 2 | 1761 | 367 | 1315 | 26 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 104 | 308 | 36 | 8 | 1607 | 305 | 1168 | 8 | 3544 |
| Total | 3772 | 10933 | 1091 | 198 | 20428 | 8449 | 27485 | 34 | 72390 |
1 always wrong
2 almost always wrong
3 wrong only sometimes
4 not wrong at all
5 other
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