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Hubby or wife earns more dollars

Source: R/gss_vars_488.R
earnshh.Rd

earnshh

Source

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

Details

Question B. Considering all sources of income, between you and your spouse/partner, who has the higher income?

Values

  • [1] spouse has no income

  • [2] i have much higher income

  • [3] i have higher income

  • [4] we have about the same income

  • [5] spouse has a higher income

  • [6] spouse partner has much higher income

  • [7] i have no income

  • [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/-2012
A/B/C2002

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapspouse has no incomei have much higher incomei have higher incomewe have about the same incomespouse has a higher incomespouse partner has much higher incomei have no incomedon't knowno answernot available in this yearTotal
20022058651271007519870291825-2765
201212745811214255236543427-1974
Total333212323924213043412463203204739

See also

Other ISSP Family & Gender Roles: fewknokd, happy7, kidfinbu, kidjob, satfam7, satjob7, ssfchild, ssmchild, twoincs1