How difficult or easy is it for r's household to make ends meet

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Source

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

Details

Question Thinking of your household's total income, including all the sources of income of all the members who contribute to it, how difficult or easy is it currently for your household to make ends meet?

Values

• [1] very difficult

• [2] fairly difficult

• [3] neither easy nor difficult

• [4] fairly easy

• [5] very easy

• [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

ballots	years
A/-	2022
B/C	2018, 2021

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	very difficult	fairly difficult	neither easy nor difficult	fairly easy	very easy	can't choose	no answer	skipped on web	not available in this year	Total
2018	1175	86	216	308	368	187	5	3	-	-	2348
2021	2029	129	321	548	485	280	53	176	11	-	4032
2022	2386	69	232	357	284	155	49	8	4	-	3544
Total	5590	284	769	1213	1137	622	107	187	15	0	9924