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Sex of closest friend

Source: R/gss_vars_454.R
frisex.Rd

frisex

Source

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

Details

Question Thinking now of close friends - not your husband or wife or partner or family members - but people you feel fairly close to… C. Now thinking of your best friend, or the friend you feel closest to: Is this friend a man or a woman?

Values

  • [1] man

  • [2] woman

  • [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
-1986

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapmanwomanno answerTotal
198677582799121470
Total77582799121470

See also

Other ISSP Social Networks & Support Systems: chores1, chores2, fricall, frineigh, frinum, fritime, frivisit, friwork, relcall

Other Friends: fricall, frineigh, frinum, fritime, frivisit, friwork

Other Social Networks: chores1, chores2, fricall, frineigh, frinum, fritime, frivisit, friwork