Ideal number of children

chldidel

Source

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

Details

Question What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?

Values

• [7] 7 or more

• [8] as many as you want

• [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
-/-	1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986
A/B	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7 or more	as many as you want	don't know	iap	Total
1972	27	19	638	375	286	49	43	18	97	61	-	1613
1974	17	30	651	346	231	32	15	6	116	40	-	1484
1975	16	28	712	347	216	17	14	5	89	46	-	1490
1976	31	49	753	298	192	27	11	6	94	38	-	1499
1977	16	28	736	347	222	37	11	12	91	30	-	1530
1978	16	26	752	353	196	34	14	8	85	48	-	1532
1982	17	54	934	350	259	37	24	22	104	59	-	1860
1983	17	27	815	370	195	23	15	3	91	43	-	1599
1985	16	38	840	331	165	27	9	10	64	34	-	1534
1986	15	24	742	359	185	25	15	5	70	30	-	1470
1988	17	16	496	252	111	15	9	3	49	20	493	1481
1989	11	27	536	213	89	26	8	6	53	37	531	1537
1990	10	17	502	217	90	12	7	1	43	29	444	1372
1991	11	28	537	221	103	14	7	2	61	40	493	1517
1993	10	37	595	216	90	13	3	3	61	52	526	1606
1994	27	50	1046	439	189	23	3	4	120	76	1015	2992
1996	24	54	1072	409	162	22	12	7	120	78	944	2904
1998	25	49	1005	365	163	17	11	8	157	71	961	2832
2000	24	64	946	439	153	14	7	2	134	94	940	2817
2002	13	29	447	223	81	16	5	1	79	14	1857	2765
2004	9	15	449	217	90	7	8	4	84	23	1906	2812
2006	22	42	963	506	161	23	14	6	214	41	2518	4510
2008	15	32	630	326	102	17	6	3	151	47	694	2023
2010	6	42	672	346	123	24	7	6	155	49	614	2044
2012	10	31	601	337	117	17	7	6	133	43	672	1974
2014	18	26	795	410	132	25	8	3	198	60	863	2538
2016	13	36	844	477	194	35	6	11	205	66	980	2867
2018	18	34	691	414	152	27	13	8	149	53	789	2348
2021	49	49	1076	501	160	22	9	3	824	-	1339	4032
2022	39	47	941	532	167	25	6	9	555	-	1223	3544
Total	559	1048	22417	10536	4776	702	327	191	4446	1322	19802	66126

See also

Other Core: abcare, abfirm, chldmore, chldnum, chldsoon, pill, pillok, sexeduc, teenpill

Other Children: chldmore, chldnum, chldsoon