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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 198b. When your children are at the age you are now, do you think their standard of living will be much better, somewhat better, about the same, somewhat worse, or much worse that your is now?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | about the same | don't know | much better | much worse | no answer | no children | somewhat better | somewhat worse | not available in this year | 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 | 1492 | 309 | 62 | 248 | 72 | 6 | 145 | 425 | 233 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 979 | 370 | 71 | 380 | 93 | 6 | 157 | 525 | 323 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 921 | 367 | 80 | 415 | 60 | 5 | 204 | 608 | 172 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 921 | 301 | 67 | 532 | 54 | 10 | 241 | 553 | 138 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1853 | 161 | 17 | 231 | 20 | - | 105 | 305 | 73 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1936 | 183 | 12 | 209 | 30 | 2 | 83 | 260 | 97 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2521 | 350 | 38 | 547 | 58 | 3 | 231 | 541 | 221 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 658 | 236 | 38 | 353 | 74 | 2 | 141 | 340 | 181 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 667 | 247 | 36 | 330 | 71 | 3 | 133 | 375 | 182 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 636 | 238 | 32 | 342 | 82 | 2 | 149 | 296 | 197 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 851 | 308 | 25 | 415 | 90 | 3 | 177 | 439 | 230 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 912 | 353 | 37 | 544 | 102 | 3 | 185 | 504 | 227 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 785 | 265 | 24 | 480 | 58 | 4 | 180 | 390 | 162 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4032 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2337 | 211 | 41 | 317 | 67 | 7 | 130 | 276 | 158 | - | 3544 |
| Total | 46857 | 3899 | 580 | 5343 | 931 | 56 | 2261 | 5837 | 2594 | 4032 | 72390 |
1 much better
2 somewhat better
3 about the same
4 somewhat worse
5 much worse
6 no children
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