R's relationship to closest aids victim

aidswho

Source

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

Details

Question Think about the person you have known best, living or dead, who came down with AIDS. Please tell me the letter of the category on the card which best describes your relationship to that person.

Values

[1] husband or wife
[2] partner or lover
[3] son or daughter
[4] other relative
[5] friend
[6] neighbor
[7] co-worker
[8] acquaintance
[9] patient
[10] 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(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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	1988, 1989, 1990, 1993
B/C/-	1991

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for aidswho.

Counts by year:

year	iap	husband or wife	other relative	friend	neighbor	co-worker	acquaintance	patient	other	no answer	partner or lover	son or daughter	Total
1988	1342	1	5	37	7	21	52	6	7	3	-	-	1481
1989	1392	-	19	40	2	12	53	3	11	3	2	-	1537
1990	1195	-	23	41	5	22	66	6	11	1	1	1	1372
1991	1348	2	22	48	7	15	52	8	12	1	2	-	1517
1993	1214	1	52	125	19	47	112	9	16	7	2	2	1606
Total	6491	4	121	291	40	117	335	32	57	15	7	3	7513