Shotgun in home

shotgun

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 237a. If yes: Is it a pistol, shotgun, rigfle, or what? SHOTGUN

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	no	no answer	refused	yes	don't know	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	1069	7	15	413	-	-	1504
1974	-	1056	5	10	413	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	-	1054	10	17	418	-	-	1499
1977	-	1042	11	2	475	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	-	1019	10	7	432	-	-	1468
1982	-	1340	6	26	488	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	-	1051	6	9	407	-	-	1473
1985	-	1102	4	10	418	-	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	-	1328	7	10	474	-	-	1819
1988	504	728	7	10	232	-	-	1481
1989	504	743	4	-	286	-	-	1537
1990	455	672	9	-	235	1	-	1372
1991	524	722	20	-	251	-	-	1517
1993	531	777	2	7	289	-	-	1606
1994	996	1488	23	5	480	-	-	2992
1996	981	1438	5	7	473	-	-	2904
1998	951	1477	9	6	389	-	-	2832
2000	956	1481	14	23	343	-	-	2817
2002	1841	719	-	10	195	-	-	2765
2004	1916	702	11	16	167	-	-	2812
2006	2509	1578	-	35	385	3	-	4510
2008	674	1049	-	19	277	4	-	2023
2010	766	982	-	50	241	5	-	2044
2012	669	994	-	28	276	7	-	1974
2014	827	1350	-	63	293	5	-	2538
2016	978	1477	-	60	346	6	-	2867
2018	779	1203	4	39	319	4	-	2348
2021	-	3094	4	117	732	76	9	4032
2022	1203	1813	6	72	419	24	7	3544
Total	26268	34548	184	673	10566	135	16	72390

Values

• 1 yes

• 2 no

• 3 refused

• 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