sexfreq
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 1545. About how often did you have sex during the last 12 months?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | 2 or 3 times a month | 2 or 3 times a week | about once a week | more than 3 times a week | no answer | not at all | once a month | once or twice | 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 | 1481 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 136 | 221 | 307 | 258 | 64 | 40 | 298 | 114 | 99 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 199 | 91 | 108 | 110 | 37 | 621 | 110 | 57 | 39 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 221 | 181 | 265 | 233 | 72 | 44 | 292 | 108 | 99 | 2 | 1517 |
| 1993 | 114 | 221 | 273 | 272 | 97 | 64 | 309 | 164 | 92 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 201 | 416 | 538 | 483 | 155 | 155 | 563 | 290 | 188 | 3 | 2992 |
| 1996 | 258 | 412 | 565 | 471 | 164 | 116 | 476 | 248 | 192 | 2 | 2904 |
| 1998 | 383 | 358 | 458 | 425 | 125 | 127 | 516 | 263 | 175 | 2 | 2832 |
| 2000 | 417 | 360 | 446 | 391 | 152 | 135 | 509 | 204 | 202 | 1 | 2817 |
| 2002 | 489 | 350 | 415 | 341 | 163 | 107 | 484 | 212 | 186 | 18 | 2765 |
| 2004 | 584 | 364 | 377 | 376 | 147 | 99 | 445 | 240 | 160 | 20 | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2096 | 361 | 430 | 343 | 134 | 75 | 595 | 265 | 205 | 6 | 4510 |
| 2008 | 240 | 243 | 309 | 285 | 108 | 71 | 416 | 176 | 149 | 26 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 202 | 284 | 304 | 257 | 99 | 75 | 440 | 194 | 174 | 15 | 2044 |
| 2012 | 643 | 255 | 283 | 215 | 112 | 109 | 35 | 169 | 127 | 26 | 1974 |
| 2014 | 188 | 357 | 365 | 333 | 122 | 108 | 571 | 255 | 220 | 19 | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1096 | 274 | 271 | 244 | 90 | 53 | 439 | 216 | 178 | 6 | 2867 |
| 2018 | 942 | 208 | 197 | 214 | 84 | 43 | 365 | 162 | 127 | 6 | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1701 | 351 | 268 | 287 | 84 | 47 | 633 | 283 | 251 | 127 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1898 | 224 | 207 | 198 | 76 | 80 | 481 | 181 | 140 | 59 | 3544 |
| Total | 35364 | 5531 | 6386 | 5736 | 2085 | 2169 | 7977 | 3801 | 3003 | 338 | 72390 |
0 not at all
1 once or twice
2 once a month
3 2 or 3 times a month
4 about once a week
5 2 or 3 times a week
6 more than 3 times a week
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