spanking
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 225. Do you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree that it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard, spanking?
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Counts by year:
| year | iap | agree | disagree | don't know | no answer | strongly agree | strongly disagree | skipped on web | 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 | - | 816 | 195 | 9 | 1 | 404 | 45 | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 493 | 476 | 145 | 8 | 2 | 302 | 55 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 531 | 455 | 169 | 9 | 3 | 315 | 55 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 444 | 466 | 154 | 8 | 3 | 261 | 36 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 493 | 485 | 194 | 15 | 2 | 263 | 65 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 526 | 538 | 210 | 15 | 4 | 243 | 70 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 1015 | 909 | 357 | 20 | 7 | 522 | 162 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 944 | 890 | 357 | 33 | 4 | 512 | 164 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 961 | 880 | 336 | 34 | 2 | 486 | 133 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 940 | 780 | 328 | 33 | 4 | 588 | 144 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1857 | 387 | 176 | 6 | 3 | 272 | 64 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1906 | 433 | 182 | 8 | 1 | 222 | 60 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2518 | 893 | 402 | 20 | 2 | 532 | 143 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 694 | 608 | 280 | 18 | 3 | 342 | 78 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 614 | 647 | 324 | 10 | 3 | 336 | 110 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 672 | 598 | 277 | 21 | 4 | 302 | 100 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 863 | 777 | 365 | 12 | 4 | 378 | 139 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 979 | 817 | 440 | 15 | 7 | 457 | 152 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 789 | 700 | 368 | 23 | 7 | 340 | 121 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1317 | 977 | 827 | 4 | 1 | 424 | 456 | 26 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1168 | 887 | 634 | 23 | 2 | 434 | 389 | 7 | 3544 |
| Total | 40129 | 14419 | 6720 | 344 | 69 | 7935 | 2741 | 33 | 72390 |
1 strongly agree
2 agree
3 disagree
4 strongly disagree
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