Mothers employment since marriage

mawork

Source

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

Details

Question Did your mother ever work for pay for as long as a year, after she was married?

Values

• [1] yes

• [2] no

• [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
Full	1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	yes	no	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1973	158	591	714	22	19	-	1504
1974	150	602	672	21	39	-	1484
1975	138	683	637	19	13	-	1490
1976	143	679	639	20	18	-	1499
1977	143	626	712	22	27	-	1530
1978	142	751	614	20	5	-	1532
1980	149	710	577	17	15	-	1468
1982	206	851	700	38	65	-	1860
1983	142	865	569	20	3	-	1599
1984	148	802	494	20	9	-	1473
1985	171	806	545	10	2	-	1534
1986	136	829	483	22	-	-	1470
1987	202	1018	567	25	7	-	1819
1988	146	842	462	29	2	-	1481
1989	151	842	518	20	6	-	1537
1990	135	797	412	24	4	-	1372
1991	171	866	448	25	7	-	1517
1993	166	940	449	37	14	-	1606
Total	2797	14100	10212	411	255	0	27775

See also

Other Core: born, famdif16, family16, incom16, mawk16, mawkbaby, mawkborn, mawrkgrw, parborn

Other Labor Force Status: mawk16, mawkbaby, mawkborn, mawrkgrw