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Wife better if bad marrge ended by div

Source: R/gss_vars_481.R
divwife.Rd

divwife

Source

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

Details

Question And when a marriage is troubled and unhappy, is it generally better for the wife if the couple stays together or gets divorced?

Values

  • [1] much better to div

  • [2] better to divorce

  • [3] worse to divorce

  • [4] much worse to div

  • [NA(d)] can't choose [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/C1988

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapmuch better to divbetter to divorceworse to divorcemuch worse to divcan't chooseno answernot available in this yearTotal
1988672325581858332630-1481
Total67232558185833263001481

See also

Other ISSP Family & Gender Roles: divifkid, divkids, divnokid, divnow, kidempty, kidfin, kidjoy, kidless, kidnofre

Other Divorce: divifkid, divkids, divnokid, divnow