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Married people happier than unmarried

Source: R/gss_vars_479.R
marhappy.Rd

marhappy

Source

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

Details

Question Do you agree or disagree? A. Married people are generally happier than unmarried people.

Values

  • [1] strongly agree

  • [2] agree

  • [3] neither agree nor disagree

  • [4] disagree

  • [5] strongly disagree

  • [NA(d)] can't choose [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

ballotsyears
A/B/-2012
A/B/C1988, 1994, 2002

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapstrongly agreeagreeneither agree nor disagreedisagreestrongly disagreecan't chooseno answernot available in this yearTotal
198867233485411184305318-1481
19941545149496439246573921-2992
20021594191272367196103411-2765
201267210034838332759769-1974
Total3878673160116009532492094909212

See also

Other ISSP Family & Gender Roles: femarry, marfin, marfree, markids, marlegit, marmakid, marnomar, marpakid, memarry

Other Marriage: femarry, marfin, marfree, markids, marlegit, marmakid, marnomar, marpakid, memarry