Mother's (or youngest same-sex parent's) highest degree

madeg

Source

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

Details

Question RESPONDENT'S MOTHER'S (SUBSTITUTE MOTHER'S) DEGREE

Values

• [0] less than high school

• [1] high school

• [2] associate/junior college

• [3] bachelor's

• [4] graduate

• [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, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024
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 madeg.

Counts by year:

year	less than high school	high school	associate/junior college	bachelor's	graduate	don't know	iap	no answer	skipped on web	Total
1972	832	390	16	39	13	96	80	147	-	1613
1973	768	415	12	41	14	76	67	111	-	1504
1974	817	420	13	44	16	98	55	21	-	1484
1975	796	451	11	51	8	125	38	10	-	1490
1976	811	422	13	45	9	136	51	12	-	1499
1977	807	437	14	48	16	141	53	14	-	1530
1978	781	512	27	49	11	92	51	9	-	1532
1980	727	488	10	55	20	88	62	18	-	1468
1982	889	579	21	82	21	181	66	21	-	1860
1983	743	593	18	76	19	99	48	3	-	1599
1984	659	564	20	57	16	85	68	4	-	1473
1985	672	580	25	73	33	84	67	-	-	1534
1986	640	570	20	73	14	101	47	5	-	1470
1987	808	664	32	85	41	109	61	19	-	1819
1988	647	594	28	70	19	83	37	3	-	1481
1989	664	595	34	85	33	81	41	4	-	1537
1990	556	562	32	80	22	69	32	19	-	1372
1991	578	626	28	72	27	69	45	72	-	1517
1993	571	697	43	103	30	100	41	21	-	1606
1994	1031	1299	80	186	72	172	135	17	-	2992
1996	869	1308	94	213	84	188	123	25	-	2904
1998	850	1212	109	232	86	175	124	44	-	2832
2000	887	1194	104	219	79	168	132	34	-	2817
2002	779	1289	119	210	80	103	168	17	-	2765
2004	791	1214	138	270	112	120	166	1	-	2812
2006	924	1267	139	263	122	78	1687	30	-	4510
2008	573	928	94	185	64	95	83	1	-	2023
2010	606	924	83	180	89	83	78	1	-	2044
2012	563	866	110	189	97	83	65	1	-	1974
2014	698	1160	139	228	131	99	83	-	-	2538
2016	736	1349	144	292	146	97	101	2	-	2867
2018	589	1048	141	272	118	95	84	1	-	2348
2021	698	2019	220	486	255	247	100	1	6	4032
2022	696	1561	197	449	237	326	78	-	-	3544
2024	814	1492	187	402	197	46	170	-	1	3309
Total	25870	30289	2515	5504	2351	4088	4387	688	7	75699

See also

Other Core: codipged, cosector, dipged, major1, major2, spdeg, spdipged, whencol, whenhs

Other Education: dipged, major1, major2, spdeg, spdipged, whencol, whenhs