Mother working doesn't hurt children

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Source

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

Details

Question 252. Now I'm going to read several more statements. As I read each one, please tell me whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with it. a. A working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work.

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	agree	disagree	don't know	no answer	strongly agree	strongly disagree	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	-	501	505	22	3	236	263	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	-	600	438	11	5	323	157	-	1534
1986	-	589	434	9	1	323	114	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	493	384	271	9	2	233	89	-	1481
1989	531	420	286	12	4	214	70	-	1537
1990	444	382	267	6	1	201	71	-	1372
1991	493	458	287	11	2	202	64	-	1517
1993	526	496	283	15	2	217	67	-	1606
1994	1015	901	496	24	5	455	96	-	2992
1996	475	1012	624	29	7	579	178	-	2904
1998	961	841	470	26	5	407	122	-	2832
2000	940	752	540	22	9	376	178	-	2817
2002	1857	355	244	7	-	218	84	-	2765
2004	1906	379	244	9	-	211	63	-	2812
2006	2518	848	533	20	-	474	117	-	4510
2008	694	600	293	7	2	354	73	-	2023
2010	614	648	285	5	1	425	66	-	2044
2012	672	593	291	10	-	342	66	-	1974
2014	863	767	323	9	-	499	77	-	2538
2016	979	802	395	10	-	613	68	-	2867
2018	789	670	324	8	1	480	76	-	2348
2021	1315	1173	394	-	-	1062	85	3	4032
2022	1168	1031	439	11	1	796	98	-	3544
2024	1126	936	427	14	1	698	107	-	3309
Total	37720	16138	9093	306	52	9938	2449	3	75699

Values

• 1 strongly agree

• 2 agree

• 3 disagree

• 4 strongly disagree

• 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