Death of father

padeath

Source

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

Details

Question A. Death of respondent's father

Values

• [0] no death reported

• [1] died before r 16

• [2] died 6+ yrs ago

• [3] died 1-5 yrs ago

• [4] died last year

• [8] cant tell

• [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
-/-	1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987
B/C	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	no death reported	died before r 16	died 6+ yrs ago	died 1-5 yrs ago	died last year	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1978	-	716	107	498	97	38	59	17	-	1532
1980	-	644	109	505	92	51	53	14	-	1468
1983	-	769	92	539	104	39	47	9	-	1599
1984	-	694	80	482	93	38	62	24	-	1473
1986	-	702	84	503	73	42	56	10	-	1470
1987	-	878	98	552	111	61	92	27	-	1819
1988	484	498	46	315	57	28	39	14	-	1481
1989	502	504	47	346	60	21	52	5	-	1537
1990	473	433	43	286	65	17	41	14	-	1372
1991	500	495	53	335	44	22	56	12	-	1517
1993	549	537	36	332	67	19	56	10	-	1606
1994	2481	245	18	182	26	11	26	3	-	2992
Total	4989	7115	813	4875	889	387	639	159	0	19866

See also

Other Core: chlddth, death16, death5, hosdis5, hosrel1, hosrel4, madeath, unrel1, unrel4

Other Family: chlddth, death16, death5, madeath