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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 1555. Have you ever had sex with someone other than your husband or wife while you were married?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | never married | no | no answer | yes | don't know | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1470 | - | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 1481 | - | - | - | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 1537 | - | - | - | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 1372 | - | - | - | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 221 | 279 | 853 | 18 | 146 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 114 | 258 | 982 | 57 | 195 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 201 | 586 | 1781 | 70 | 354 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 258 | 615 | 1618 | 43 | 369 | 1 | 2904 |
| 1998 | 383 | 587 | 1481 | 57 | 324 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 417 | 602 | 1418 | 71 | 308 | 1 | 2817 |
| 2002 | 502 | 594 | 1307 | 49 | 311 | 2 | 2765 |
| 2004 | 573 | 540 | 1360 | 45 | 291 | 3 | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2096 | 623 | 1414 | 26 | 350 | 1 | 4510 |
| 2008 | 240 | 491 | 1046 | 28 | 214 | 4 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 202 | 523 | 1058 | 31 | 227 | 3 | 2044 |
| 2012 | 238 | 486 | 1003 | 32 | 213 | 2 | 1974 |
| 2014 | 188 | 636 | 1375 | 53 | 285 | 1 | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1096 | 523 | 1003 | 28 | 217 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 942 | 425 | 806 | 14 | 159 | 2 | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1615 | 646 | 1408 | 49 | 297 | 17 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1300 | 1101 | 884 | 73 | 170 | 16 | 3544 |
| Total | 36851 | 9515 | 20797 | 744 | 4430 | 53 | 72390 |
1 yes
2 no
3 never married
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(q) 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