sexsex5
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 1553. Have your sex partners in the last five years been...
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | both male and female | exclusively female | exclusively male | no answer | 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 | 1537 | - | - | - | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 1372 | - | - | - | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 402 | 14 | 455 | 601 | 45 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 327 | 17 | 545 | 660 | 57 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 559 | 30 | 1015 | 1252 | 136 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 580 | 40 | 1016 | 1159 | 109 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 706 | 31 | 899 | 1076 | 120 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 632 | 43 | 882 | 1021 | 239 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 797 | 34 | 879 | 968 | 78 | 9 | 2765 |
| 2004 | 837 | 14 | 882 | 1022 | 54 | 3 | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2447 | 40 | 893 | 1059 | 71 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 509 | 25 | 703 | 759 | 23 | 4 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 465 | 25 | 707 | 800 | 45 | 2 | 2044 |
| 2012 | 483 | 36 | 654 | 758 | 43 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 499 | 40 | 913 | 1023 | 61 | 2 | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1334 | 47 | 687 | 769 | 29 | 1 | 2867 |
| 2018 | 1161 | 25 | 563 | 575 | 23 | 1 | 2348 |
| 2021 | 2063 | 55 | 863 | 1007 | 21 | 23 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2222 | 43 | 575 | 651 | 50 | 3 | 3544 |
| Total | 42288 | 559 | 13131 | 15160 | 1204 | 48 | 72390 |
1 exclusively male
2 both male and female
3 exclusively female
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