Father's (or oldest same-sex parent's) highest degree

padeg

Source

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

Details

Question RESPONDENT'S FATHER'S (SUBSTITUTE FATHER'S) DEGREE

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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024
Full	1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Overview

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

Counts by year:

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

See also

Other Core: age, agekdbrn, codeg, coeduc, degree, educ, maeduc, paeduc, speduc

Other Education: degree, educ, maeduc, paeduc, speduc