Divorce laws

divlaw

Source

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

Details

Question 215a. Should divorce in this country be easier or more difficult to obtain than it is now?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	don't know	easier	more difficult	no answer	stay as is	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	-	77	472	624	3	308	-	1484
1975	-	71	425	692	1	301	-	1490
1976	-	80	409	743	3	264	-	1499
1977	-	74	447	736	5	268	-	1530
1978	-	63	405	629	23	412	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	-	112	491	877	3	377	-	1860
1983	-	73	379	835	2	310	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	-	64	355	813	5	297	-	1534
1986	-	60	391	758	2	259	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	493	53	241	472	6	216	-	1481
1989	531	62	251	512	1	180	-	1537
1990	444	48	212	456	1	211	-	1372
1991	493	46	284	493	3	198	-	1517
1993	526	75	280	511	3	211	-	1606
1994	1015	112	512	916	9	428	-	2992
1996	944	110	527	960	6	357	-	2904
1998	961	122	428	967	3	351	-	2832
2000	940	105	442	912	8	410	-	2817
2002	1857	23	238	447	4	196	-	2765
2004	1906	47	226	459	2	172	-	2812
2006	2518	83	494	879	-	536	-	4510
2008	694	52	364	609	5	299	-	2023
2010	614	83	450	579	5	313	-	2044
2012	672	88	432	503	6	273	-	1974
2014	863	94	574	663	5	339	-	2538
2016	979	87	702	705	11	383	-	2867
2018	789	104	648	502	10	295	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	2299	114	606	272	3	250	-	3544
2024	2324	79	455	243	3	205	-	3309
Total	29739	2261	12140	18767	141	8619	4032	75699

Values

• 1 easier

• 2 more difficult

• 3 stay as is

• 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