Number of persons in household

hompop

Source

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

Details

Question Household Size and Composition (see Appendix D: Recodes, for information about these variables) As of 2024, HOMPOP has been calculated to only account for 0 to 14+ people in the household. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of HOMPOP. The original HOMPOP containing data from 1972 to 2022 has been renamed HOMPOP_7222.

Values

• [14] 14 or more

• [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

ballots	years
A/B/C/-	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024
A/B/C/D	2006
Full	1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	1	10	11	12	14 or more	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	13	no answer	iap	Total
1972	153	11	4	1	2	443	310	296	199	97	55	28	14	-	-	-	1613
1973	154	4	1	1	-	445	277	297	168	88	39	19	9	1	1	-	1504
1974	168	4	2	1	-	442	264	249	185	90	51	21	4	1	2	-	1484
1975	200	3	1	1	1	440	301	254	159	77	33	14	6	-	-	-	1490
1976	235	2	1	1	-	482	257	237	171	60	24	17	7	3	2	-	1499
1977	261	2	2	-	-	472	286	257	138	72	19	12	9	-	-	-	1530
1978	296	2	-	-	1	458	270	273	129	67	21	11	4	-	-	-	1532
1980	288	6	-	-	-	493	259	248	107	38	22	6	1	-	-	-	1468
1982	413	3	1	1	-	583	351	268	149	54	18	15	3	1	-	-	1860
1983	309	2	-	-	-	500	302	270	133	47	24	8	4	-	-	-	1599
1984	330	3	-	-	-	459	278	219	121	47	11	3	2	-	-	-	1473
1985	343	4	-	-	-	510	269	230	120	35	13	7	3	-	-	-	1534
1986	314	3	-	-	-	457	267	228	137	40	13	5	6	-	-	-	1470
1987	420	5	-	-	-	532	340	293	144	59	16	6	4	-	-	-	1819
1988	328	-	-	-	-	518	250	232	100	37	10	3	3	-	-	-	1481
1989	327	3	-	-	-	504	269	259	106	35	21	8	5	-	-	-	1537
1990	330	-	-	-	-	483	221	203	89	28	14	4	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	377	2	-	-	-	476	275	241	98	29	14	2	2	-	1	-	1517
1993	377	-	-	-	-	521	295	267	107	31	5	1	2	-	-	-	1606
1994	760	-	-	-	-	1001	527	447	170	55	25	6	1	-	-	-	2992
1996	744	1	-	-	-	988	454	453	152	71	29	8	4	-	-	-	2904
1998	780	2	-	-	-	937	483	394	145	62	16	9	4	-	-	-	2832
2000	742	5	-	-	-	929	459	433	160	64	15	2	8	-	-	-	2817
2002	870	2	-	-	-	940	454	291	145	41	16	3	3	-	-	-	2765
2004	706	1	1	-	-	1080	441	342	157	62	15	5	2	-	-	-	2812
2006	1220	2	1	-	-	1563	716	590	267	100	37	11	3	-	-	-	4510
2008	523	-	1	-	-	701	322	277	125	54	13	6	1	-	-	-	2023
2010	612	3	-	2	-	718	318	224	85	46	24	6	6	-	-	-	2044
2012	530	1	-	-	-	728	273	243	122	56	14	7	-	-	-	-	1974
2014	695	1	1	-	-	997	385	261	132	47	15	1	3	-	-	-	2538
2016	850	1	1	-	-	1069	436	278	139	58	19	9	7	-	-	-	2867
2018	669	1	2	-	-	890	342	287	105	32	12	5	3	-	-	-	2348
2021	1042	-	1	-	1	1456	586	449	184	70	23	15	2	-	-	203	4032
2022	594	-	-	1	-	615	228	194	89	35	16	2	6	-	-	1764	3544
2024	578	1	1	-	-	558	227	174	75	40	18	6	1	-	-	1630	3309
Total	17538	80	21	9	5	24388	11992	10158	4812	1924	730	291	142	6	6	3597	75699

See also

Other Core: adults, babies, earnrs, granborn, income, preteen, rincome, teens, unrelat

Other Household: adults, babies, earnrs, preteen, teens, unrelat