Father's (or oldest same-sex parent's) highest degree — padeg • gssrdoc

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Source

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

Details

Question 20. If finished 9th-12th grade: Did he ever get a high school diploma or a GED certificate?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	bachelor's	don't know	graduate	high school	iap	less than high school	no answer	associate/junior college	skipped on web	Total
1972	51	104	40	263	235	775	145	-	-	1613
1973	61	90	32	276	151	784	104	6	-	1504
1974	44	116	38	296	182	781	18	9	-	1484
1975	50	125	28	324	151	802	6	4	-	1490
1976	53	132	35	301	186	774	12	6	-	1499
1977	41	149	39	285	193	803	12	8	-	1530
1978	56	105	38	341	205	772	7	8	-	1532
1980	56	101	56	339	230	666	15	5	-	1468
1982	72	195	48	395	296	829	15	10	-	1860
1983	89	117	59	406	207	707	5	9	-	1599
1984	82	99	43	359	202	669	4	15	-	1473
1985	89	96	59	403	194	683	-	10	-	1534
1986	82	103	40	376	222	631	5	11	-	1470
1987	100	122	73	418	291	783	15	17	-	1819
1988	83	91	74	378	189	648	5	13	-	1481
1989	93	95	63	390	197	671	4	24	-	1537
1990	77	72	52	413	191	535	17	15	-	1372
1991	103	93	55	416	205	600	26	19	-	1517
1993	131	98	76	457	197	597	24	26	-	1606
1994	226	189	146	860	492	1007	17	55	-	2992
1996	227	201	160	872	502	874	20	48	-	2904
1998	263	176	154	812	503	857	19	48	-	2832
2000	226	195	133	808	518	847	39	51	-	2817
2002	208	129	139	867	526	814	14	68	-	2765
2004	259	126	179	898	514	765	1	70	-	2812
2006	256	84	193	943	2049	893	19	73	-	4510
2008	187	109	111	679	354	538	7	38	-	2023
2010	164	95	138	671	370	561	5	40	-	2044
2012	180	116	127	625	333	531	3	59	-	1974
2014	252	128	157	852	459	619	5	66	-	2538
2016	273	143	159	1010	550	663	5	64	-	2867
2018	206	116	158	799	464	532	3	70	-	2348
2021	502	305	339	1489	563	735	3	93	3	4032
2022	381	333	295	1181	597	663	-	93	1	3544
2024	342	50	248	1156	617	799	-	97	-	3309
Total	5565	4598	3784	21358	13335	25208	599	1248	4	75699

Values

0 less than high school
1 high school
2 associate/junior college
3 bachelor's
4 graduate
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