How many in family earned money?

earnrs_7222

Source

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

Details

Question Just thinking about your family now–those people in the household who are related to you . . . How many persons in the family, including yourself, earned any money last year -(the previous year) - from any job or employment?

As of 2024, EARNRS has been recoded to only account for 0 to 3+ household earners. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of EARNRS. The original EARNRS containing data from 1972 to 2022 has been renamed EARNRS_7222.

Values

• [8] eight or more

• [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
A/B/C/-	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022
A/B/C/D	2006
Full	1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for earnrs_7222.

Counts by year:

year	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	no answer	7	eight or more	iap	skipped on web	not available in this year	Total
1972	186	682	506	136	52	14	4	33	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	162	608	506	138	63	11	2	10	3	1	-	-	-	1504
1974	192	595	477	132	50	15	7	15	1	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	201	593	483	121	54	25	5	8	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	233	627	449	118	45	17	1	8	-	1	-	-	-	1499
1977	214	613	494	125	60	18	2	4	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	229	629	479	104	54	22	3	8	2	2	-	-	-	1532
1980	249	544	483	98	53	11	7	19	3	1	-	-	-	1468
1982	291	752	577	135	38	10	4	53	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	234	621	544	123	41	16	2	17	1	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	233	611	441	111	42	13	4	18	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	276	578	499	99	55	11	3	11	2	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	297	506	478	107	41	17	2	20	2	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	291	709	585	148	53	15	2	16	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	275	560	452	137	34	9	4	10	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	286	553	475	133	52	20	4	12	1	1	-	-	-	1537
1990	248	508	456	101	40	7	3	8	-	1	-	-	-	1372
1991	320	581	459	100	42	4	-	11	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	298	577	556	114	32	6	2	20	1	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	493	1190	981	189	78	6	-	55	-	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	432	1213	920	186	70	15	5	63	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	429	1149	949	187	74	13	1	23	2	5	-	-	-	2832
2000	471	1162	942	177	47	7	2	7	-	2	-	-	-	2817
2002	466	1097	918	165	69	19	8	19	1	3	-	-	-	2765
2004	394	1131	996	179	78	13	4	7	3	7	-	-	-	2812
2006	645	1890	1502	290	121	37	4	21	-	-	-	-	-	4510
2008	328	791	668	166	44	18	4	3	-	1	-	-	-	2023
2010	354	825	632	143	55	13	5	14	2	1	-	-	-	2044
2012	369	770	637	119	56	8	2	12	-	1	-	-	-	1974
2014	467	1023	797	171	49	13	3	14	1	-	-	-	-	2538
2016	571	1104	891	180	82	17	1	19	1	1	-	-	-	2867
2018	423	891	762	181	65	10	1	12	2	1	-	-	-	2348
2021	832	1421	1216	263	101	39	9	-	7	7	58	79	-	4032
2022	736	1392	971	215	105	34	10	29	3	6	6	37	-	3544
Total	12125	28496	23181	5091	1995	523	120	599	38	42	64	116	0	72390