dipged
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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[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
Overview
For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for dipged.
Counts by year:
| year | not available in this year | high school diploma | ged | other | iap | no answer | don't know | skipped on web | Total |
| 2012 | - | 1543 | 133 | 8 | 288 | 2 | - | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | - | 1990 | 196 | 15 | 330 | 6 | 1 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | - | 2237 | 245 | 41 | 328 | 15 | 1 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | - | 1891 | 183 | 6 | 262 | 6 | - | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | - | 3396 | 306 | 22 | 269 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 4032 |
| 2022 | - | 2858 | 276 | 32 | 359 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3544 |
| 2024 | - | 2721 | 231 | 24 | 309 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 3309 |
| Total | 0 | 16636 | 1570 | 148 | 2145 | 86 | 16 | 11 | 20612 |