Marital status

marital

Source

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

Details

Question 4. Are you currently – married, widowed, divorced, separated, or have you never been married?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	divorced	married	never married	separated	widowed	no answer	don't know	skipped on web	Total
1972	65	1160	210	39	139	-	-	-	1613
1973	60	1076	193	52	123	-	-	-	1504
1974	76	1065	184	38	121	-	-	-	1484
1975	84	1002	211	49	144	-	-	-	1490
1976	98	974	207	51	169	-	-	-	1499
1977	103	975	225	62	165	-	-	-	1530
1978	134	960	237	47	153	1	-	-	1532
1980	125	889	242	48	164	-	-	-	1468
1982	203	993	351	91	222	-	-	-	1860
1983	159	965	265	48	162	-	-	-	1599
1984	166	829	282	42	154	-	-	-	1473
1985	169	871	268	65	161	-	-	-	1534
1986	148	826	266	60	170	-	-	-	1470
1987	222	915	380	84	217	1	-	-	1819
1988	186	788	298	48	161	-	-	-	1481
1989	177	847	301	59	153	-	-	-	1537
1990	171	727	265	37	171	1	-	-	1372
1991	175	804	325	45	168	-	-	-	1517
1993	230	859	300	44	172	1	-	-	1606
1994	446	1541	614	102	288	1	-	-	2992
1996	455	1390	658	118	282	1	-	-	2904
1998	446	1346	663	93	283	1	-	-	2832
2000	441	1278	712	112	273	1	-	-	2817
2002	445	1269	708	96	247	-	-	-	2765
2004	415	1479	619	95	204	-	-	-	2812
2006	732	2170	1080	156	366	6	-	-	4510
2008	281	972	531	70	164	5	-	-	2023
2010	341	891	565	65	181	1	-	-	2044
2012	317	900	526	68	163	-	-	-	1974
2014	411	1158	675	81	209	4	-	-	2538
2016	495	1212	806	102	251	1	-	-	2867
2018	403	998	670	75	200	2	-	-	2348
2021	655	1999	972	96	301	1	1	7	4032
2022	608	1468	1095	103	255	9	1	5	3544
2024	516	1363	1059	107	249	8	-	7	3309
Total	10158	38959	16963	2548	7005	45	2	19	75699

Values

• 1 married

• 2 widowed

• 3 divorced

• 4 separated

• 5 never married

• 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