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Source

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

Details

Question 2e. (Are/were) you self employed or (do/did) you 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	162	3	149	1299	-	-	1613
1973	147	10	148	1199	-	-	1504
1974	128	2	116	1238	-	-	1484
1975	134	8	143	1205	-	-	1490
1976	145	2	137	1215	-	-	1499
1977	113	-	131	1286	-	-	1530
1978	127	1	140	1264	-	-	1532
1980	119	7	168	1174	-	-	1468
1982	122	7	186	1545	-	-	1860
1983	104	7	168	1320	-	-	1599
1984	88	5	170	1210	-	-	1473
1985	81	-	193	1260	-	-	1534
1986	100	-	187	1183	-	-	1470
1987	95	6	187	1531	-	-	1819
1988	85	6	163	1227	-	-	1481
1989	93	25	171	1248	-	-	1537
1990	71	2	150	1149	-	-	1372
1991	97	5	157	1258	-	-	1517
1993	79	9	187	1331	-	-	1606
1994	126	19	339	2508	-	-	2992
1996	107	45	365	2387	-	-	2904
1998	135	42	323	2332	-	-	2832
2000	125	54	307	2331	-	-	2817
2002	91	2	307	2362	3	-	2765
2004	113	1	343	2353	2	-	2812
2006	187	13	508	3799	3	-	4510
2008	62	3	226	1732	-	-	2023
2010	98	4	234	1706	2	-	2044
2012	78	1	194	1700	1	-	1974
2014	92	4	295	2145	2	-	2538
2016	90	5	296	2472	4	-	2867
2018	77	7	232	2029	3	-	2348
2021	79	5	432	3493	2	21	4032
2022	113	7	393	3013	3	15	3544
Total	3663	317	7845	60504	25	36	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