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Source

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

Details

Question 174. As you know, many older people share a home with their grown children. Do you think this is generally a good idea or a bad idea?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	a bad idea	a good idea	depends	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	865	469	161	8	1	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	795	460	225	9	1	-	1490
1976	-	726	543	216	13	1	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	-	741	531	254	6	-	-	1532
1980	-	633	591	225	18	1	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	674	684	235	4	2	-	1599
1984	-	531	734	194	11	3	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	686	592	182	10	-	-	1470
1987	-	604	921	276	15	3	-	1819
1988	484	406	440	142	7	2	-	1481
1989	502	410	437	176	11	1	-	1537
1990	473	337	396	151	15	-	-	1372
1991	500	384	451	167	9	6	-	1517
1993	549	369	455	218	13	2	-	1606
1994	981	721	925	339	20	6	-	2992
1996	979	632	883	372	29	9	-	2904
1998	921	658	853	371	23	6	-	2832
2000	921	592	962	313	21	8	-	2817
2002	1853	301	433	176	2	-	-	2765
2004	1936	258	431	184	2	1	-	2812
2006	2521	614	937	428	10	-	-	4510
2008	658	456	660	239	8	2	-	2023
2010	667	392	716	255	10	4	-	2044
2012	636	425	684	212	16	1	-	1974
2014	851	490	881	302	13	1	-	2538
2016	912	534	1118	284	15	4	-	2867
2018	785	432	874	245	11	1	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	2355	281	642	251	13	2	-	3544
2024	-	-	-	-	-	-	3309	3309
Total	27505	14947	18703	6793	342	68	7341	75699

Values

1 a good idea
2 a bad idea
3 depends
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(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