Have gun in home

owngun

Source

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

Details

Question 237. Do you happen to have in your home (or garage) any guns or revolvers?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	no	no answer	refused	yes	don't know	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	773	9	15	707	-	-	1504
1974	-	785	4	10	684	1	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	-	779	6	17	697	-	-	1499
1977	-	748	7	2	771	2	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	-	760	10	2	695	1	-	1468
1982	-	1019	6	22	810	3	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	-	795	6	9	662	1	-	1473
1985	-	842	4	10	678	-	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	-	1032	7	10	770	-	-	1819
1988	504	571	7	10	389	-	-	1481
1989	504	555	3	-	475	-	-	1537
1990	455	520	9	-	387	1	-	1372
1991	524	583	7	10	393	-	-	1517
1993	531	614	2	7	452	-	-	1606
1994	996	1160	4	19	810	3	-	2992
1996	981	1142	-	7	772	2	-	2904
1998	950	1215	6	6	654	1	-	2832
2000	956	1231	3	23	603	1	-	2817
2002	1841	605	-	9	310	-	-	2765
2004	1914	558	3	16	319	2	-	2812
2006	2507	1307	-	30	664	2	-	4510
2008	671	870	-	15	464	3	-	2023
2010	763	839	-	42	394	6	-	2044
2012	666	841	-	24	440	3	-	1974
2014	824	1128	-	54	529	3	-	2538
2016	977	1246	-	50	593	1	-	2867
2018	774	993	-	39	537	5	-	2348
2021	-	2529	-	10	1383	3	107	4032
2022	1203	1511	-	44	758	3	25	3544
2024	1067	1384	-	36	786	3	33	3309
Total	27312	28935	103	548	18586	50	165	75699

Values

• 1 yes

• 2 no

• 3 refused

• 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