Happiness of marriage

hapmar

Source

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

Details

Question 158. Taking all things together, how would you describe your marriage?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	don't know	no answer	not too happy	pretty happy	very happy	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	428	1	3	28	317	727	-	1504
1974	419	2	4	37	290	732	-	1484
1975	488	2	5	27	297	671	-	1490
1976	525	-	1	23	300	650	-	1499
1977	555	5	5	35	298	632	-	1530
1978	571	1	6	25	307	622	-	1532
1980	579	2	5	25	258	599	-	1468
1982	867	4	8	30	326	625	-	1860
1983	634	-	4	31	330	600	-	1599
1984	644	-	4	25	259	541	-	1473
1985	663	1	7	29	346	488	-	1534
1986	644	1	6	28	274	517	-	1470
1987	903	-	12	26	305	573	-	1819
1988	693	-	1	27	268	492	-	1481
1989	690	3	4	21	311	508	-	1537
1990	643	1	4	16	240	468	-	1372
1991	713	1	3	26	268	506	-	1517
1993	747	3	3	25	301	527	-	1606
1994	1451	4	8	47	555	927	-	2992
1996	1514	4	7	30	495	854	-	2904
1998	1486	1	8	37	445	855	-	2832
2000	1538	6	9	41	434	789	-	2817
2002	2161	1	-	18	215	370	-	2765
2004	2130	-	6	25	234	417	-	2812
2006	3094	1	5	37	512	861	-	4510
2008	1046	1	7	30	343	596	-	2023
2010	1152	2	4	28	314	544	-	2044
2012	1074	-	3	26	282	589	-	1974
2014	1376	2	5	39	425	691	-	2538
2016	1654	1	8	48	430	726	-	2867
2018	1348	1	7	30	324	638	-	2348
2021	2031	-	3	74	701	1211	12	4032
2022	2067	1	18	72	502	881	3	3544
2024	1938	1	14	45	504	802	5	3309
Total	40079	53	197	1111	12010	22229	20	75699

Values

• 1 very happy

• 2 pretty happy

• 3 not too happy

• 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