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Source

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

Details

Question Was that a diploma awarded by your high school at graduation at the end of 12th grade, a GED awarded after you took a test, or something else? As of 2024, DIPGED has been recoded to only account for three categories. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of DIPGED. The original DIPGED containing data 2012 to 2022 has been renamed DIPGED_1222.

Values

  • [1] high school diploma

  • [2] ged

  • [3] other

  • [5] high school diploma after post high school class

  • [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

ballotsyears
A/B/C2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariaphigh school diplomagedotherhigh school diploma after post high school classno answerdon't knowskipped on web7Total
20122881543133262---1974
2014330199019615-61--2538
2016328223724541-151--2867
20182621891183336---2348
202126933963061392487-4032
20223592858276293131323544
Total183613915133910321661110217303

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