babies
Details
Question Household Size and Composition (see Appendix D: Recodes, for information about these variables). A. NUMBER OF MEMBERS UNDER 6 YEARS OLD: As of 2024, BABIES has been recoded to only account for 0 to 2+ children younger than 6 in the household. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of BABIES. The original BABIES containing data from 1972 to 2022 has been renamed BABIES_7222.
Values
[0]0 household members under 6[8]8 or more[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, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024 |
| A/B/C/D | 2006 |
| Full | 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 |
Overview
For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for babies.
Counts by year:
| year | 0 household members under 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | no answer | 6 | not available in this release | iap | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 1215 | 228 | 129 | 34 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1150 | 216 | 110 | 22 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1127 | 227 | 101 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1167 | 228 | 83 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1160 | 224 | 88 | 21 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1248 | 197 | 62 | 13 | 1 | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1232 | 195 | 78 | 11 | 2 | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1179 | 200 | 66 | 10 | 2 | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1507 | 240 | 90 | 18 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1275 | 212 | 90 | 14 | 3 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1203 | 176 | 74 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1244 | 200 | 66 | 17 | 2 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1189 | 194 | 70 | 10 | 2 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1509 | 215 | 76 | 16 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 1200 | 202 | 58 | 10 | - | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 1233 | 192 | 77 | 13 | 1 | - | 21 | - | - | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 1134 | 157 | 67 | 4 | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 1231 | 183 | 87 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 1321 | 198 | 75 | 9 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 2485 | 369 | 108 | 23 | 4 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 2408 | 340 | 132 | 22 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 2401 | 308 | 102 | 15 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 2322 | 315 | 115 | 16 | 2 | - | 47 | - | - | - | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 2379 | 259 | 74 | 22 | 2 | - | 29 | - | - | - | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 2439 | 241 | 96 | 15 | 1 | - | 20 | - | - | - | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 3850 | 421 | 167 | 29 | 5 | - | 38 | - | - | - | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 1697 | 187 | 93 | 15 | 2 | - | 29 | - | - | - | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 1759 | 201 | 60 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 1686 | 180 | 75 | 12 | 1 | - | 20 | - | - | - | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 2275 | 177 | 68 | 11 | 3 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 2550 | 192 | 86 | 13 | 2 | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 2073 | 185 | 53 | 7 | - | 1 | 29 | - | - | - | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4032 | - | - | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1577 | 130 | 56 | 4 | 1 | - | 8 | - | - | 1764 | 4 | 3544 |
| Total | 55425 | 7389 | 2832 | 492 | 62 | 9 | 380 | 1 | 4032 | 1764 | 4 | 72390 |