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

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Source

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

Details

Question 21. If finished 9th-12th grade: Did she ever get a high school diploma or a GED certificate?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

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

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