Spouse self-emp. or works for somebody

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Source

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

Details

Question 6e. (Is/was) (he/she) self-employed or (does/did) (he/she) work for someone else?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	no answer	self-employed	someone else	don't know	skipped on web	Total
1972	580	8	120	905	-	-	1613
1973	537	4	119	844	-	-	1504
1974	524	-	109	851	-	-	1484
1975	572	7	104	807	-	-	1490
1976	613	5	101	780	-	-	1499
1977	639	1	100	790	-	-	1530
1978	654	2	118	758	-	-	1532
1980	640	3	96	729	-	-	1468
1982	940	4	106	810	-	-	1860
1983	705	1	128	765	-	-	1599
1984	687	2	111	673	-	-	1473
1985	709	-	126	699	-	-	1534
1986	700	2	116	652	-	-	1470
1987	950	8	124	737	-	-	1819
1988	742	4	103	630	2	-	1481
1989	735	18	122	660	2	-	1537
1990	684	9	95	582	2	-	1372
1991	748	7	91	670	1	-	1517
1993	781	9	122	693	1	-	1606
1994	1521	6	191	1274	-	-	2992
1996	1563	20	205	1115	1	-	2904
1998	1527	24	188	1092	1	-	2832
2000	1608	23	153	1032	1	-	2817
2002	1547	3	172	1042	1	-	2765
2004	1406	12	211	1182	1	-	2812
2006	2465	16	236	1788	5	-	4510
2008	1077	10	118	818	-	-	2023
2010	1187	7	97	751	2	-	2044
2012	1121	2	105	743	3	-	1974
2014	1434	6	130	968	-	-	2538
2016	1692	11	149	1015	-	-	2867
2018	1378	11	114	845	-	-	2348
2021	2108	2	230	1674	-	18	4032
2022	2130	11	184	1208	4	7	3544
Total	36904	258	4594	30582	27	25	72390

Values

• 1 self-employed

• 2 someone else

• 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