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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 1050. Now, let me ask you to think about the courses you took in high school. What was the highest level of math that you completed in high school?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | calculus | don't know | general math, business, or vocational math | geometry (plane or solid or both) | no answer | no math in hs; didn't go to hs | one year of algebra | other | pre-algebra | pre-calculus | statistics/probability | trigonometry/linear programming/analysis | two years of algebra | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1470 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 1481 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 1537 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 1372 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 1517 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 1606 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 2992 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 2904 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 2832 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 2817 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 2765 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 2812 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2690 | 180 | 30 | 266 | 334 | 3 | 29 | 256 | 15 | 82 | 98 | 33 | 209 | 285 | 4510 |
| 2008 | 597 | 115 | 38 | 230 | 236 | 2 | 24 | 201 | 11 | 57 | 92 | 25 | 183 | 212 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 1370 | 82 | 20 | 60 | 96 | 64 | 3 | 76 | 10 | 17 | 40 | 17 | 80 | 109 | 2044 |
| 2012 | 1068 | 106 | 42 | 114 | 142 | 3 | 8 | 126 | 3 | 23 | 65 | 25 | 91 | 158 | 1974 |
| 2014 | 1348 | 122 | 43 | 159 | 187 | 4 | 25 | 168 | 1 | 50 | 65 | 16 | 121 | 229 | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1532 | 137 | 50 | 173 | 227 | 10 | 19 | 185 | 7 | 58 | 86 | 28 | 128 | 227 | 2867 |
| 2018 | 1222 | 118 | 60 | 117 | 163 | 8 | 19 | 176 | 6 | 33 | 85 | 29 | 121 | 191 | 2348 |
| 2021 | 4032 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4032 |
| 2022 | 3544 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3544 |
| Total | 63913 | 860 | 283 | 1119 | 1385 | 94 | 127 | 1188 | 53 | 320 | 531 | 173 | 933 | 1411 | 72390 |
0 no math in hs; didn't go to hs
1 general math, business, or vocational math
2 pre-algebra
3 one year of algebra
4 two years of algebra
5 geometry (plane or solid or both)
6 trigonometry/linear programming/analysis
7 pre-calculus
8 calculus
9 statistics/probability
10 other
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(q) 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