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Data Dictionary for the GSS Cumulative Data File 1972-2024

Source: R/data.R
gss_doc.Rd

A tibble containing information on the variables in the GSS Cumulative Data File.

Usage

gss_doc

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 6694 rows and 12 columns.

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Details

A tibble.

  • variable The name of the variable. (Character.)

  • description The variable's label. 'r' means 'Respondent'. (Character.)

  • question The question as asked. (Character)

  • norc_id The variable's ID on GSS Data Explorer. (Integer)

  • norc_url The URL for the variable's page on the GSS Data Explorer. (Character.)

  • var_yrtab Crosstab of responses by year. Stored in a list-column. The tibbles contain year values in the rows and value labels across their columns, with response freqencies in the cells as counts. (List.)

  • yrballot_df Crosstab of ballots by year. Stored in a list-column. (List)

  • module_df Tibble showing which module or modules the question belongs to. (List)

  • subject_df Tibble of NORC subject or topic classifications for the variable. (List)

  • value_labels Vector of values taken by the variable. (Character)

  • var_type The variable type of the variable in gss_all. (Character.)

  • var_na_codes The missing value codes associated with the variable in gss_all. (Character.)