Labor force status

wrkstat

Source

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

Details

Question 1. Last week were you working full time, part time, going to school, keeping house, or what?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	in school	keeping house	other	retired	unemployed, laid off, looking for work	with a job, but not at work because of temporary illness, vacation, strike	working full time	working part time	no answer	skipped on web	don't know	Total
1972	58	432	24	144	46	38	750	121	-	-	-	1613
1973	59	421	19	154	35	31	651	134	-	-	-	1504
1974	47	417	10	167	54	46	635	108	-	-	-	1484
1975	49	402	20	165	61	26	622	145	-	-	-	1490
1976	46	427	9	176	63	28	619	131	-	-	-	1499
1977	38	359	23	152	37	39	775	107	-	-	-	1530
1978	35	377	30	157	39	39	716	139	-	-	-	1532
1980	40	356	25	149	39	35	687	137	-	-	-	1468
1982	44	402	46	211	92	41	839	185	-	-	-	1860
1983	31	349	27	163	84	34	741	170	-	-	-	1599
1984	41	302	14	154	49	34	717	162	-	-	-	1473
1985	44	275	15	204	45	39	741	171	-	-	-	1534
1986	38	305	23	196	33	31	698	146	-	-	-	1470
1987	47	299	29	248	42	19	934	201	-	-	-	1819
1988	62	233	15	213	33	31	728	166	-	-	-	1481
1989	48	271	22	217	25	41	760	153	-	-	-	1537
1990	48	199	21	194	33	26	704	147	-	-	-	1372
1991	57	270	21	218	39	28	702	182	-	-	-	1517
1993	47	216	39	243	52	33	809	167	-	-	-	1606
1994	79	382	47	425	88	60	1594	315	2	-	-	2992
1996	84	338	54	350	75	60	1641	302	-	-	-	2904
1998	79	328	54	394	58	46	1568	304	1	-	-	2832
2000	77	325	61	404	60	60	1524	306	-	-	-	2817
2002	78	268	88	414	121	52	1432	312	-	-	-	2765
2004	115	266	62	403	99	80	1466	320	1	-	-	2812
2006	140	496	155	715	148	90	2322	440	4	-	-	4510
2008	57	227	60	336	74	53	1003	211	2	-	-	2023
2010	93	235	65	319	145	33	917	234	3	-	-	2044
2012	70	210	54	357	104	40	912	226	1	-	-	1974
2014	90	263	76	460	104	40	1230	273	2	-	-	2538
2016	76	284	89	574	118	57	1321	345	3	-	-	2867
2018	81	242	48	445	84	53	1134	259	2	-	-	2348
2021	88	315	118	993	265	104	1776	365	3	5	-	4032
2022	101	273	180	772	177	89	1599	346	2	4	1	3544
Total	2187	10764	1643	10886	2621	1556	35267	7430	26	9	1	72390

Values

• 1 working full time

• 2 working part time

• 3 with a job, but not at work because of temporary illness, vacation, strike

• 4 unemployed, laid off, looking for work

• 5 retired

• 6 in school

• 7 keeping house

• 8 other

• 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