R's living standard compared to parents

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Source

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

Details

Question 198a. Compared to your parents when they were the age you are now, do you think your own standard of living now is much better, somewhat better, about the same, somewhat worse, or much worse than theirs was?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	about the same	don't know	much better	much worse	no answer	somewhat better	somewhat worse	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	1481	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	1537	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	1372	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	1517	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	1606	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	1492	313	26	460	47	6	478	170	-	2992
1996	979	401	34	619	74	4	564	229	-	2904
1998	921	408	31	626	57	1	589	199	-	2832
2000	921	396	37	646	57	3	579	178	-	2817
2002	1853	175	12	303	24	1	298	99	-	2765
2004	1936	173	9	329	30	1	251	83	-	2812
2006	2521	421	23	671	52	2	624	196	-	4510
2008	658	290	25	417	72	1	394	166	-	2023
2010	667	341	15	389	64	1	394	173	-	2044
2012	636	296	29	413	69	1	368	162	-	1974
2014	851	406	22	505	79	2	478	195	-	2538
2016	912	466	20	573	100	3	555	238	-	2867
2018	785	362	24	495	65	3	433	181	-	2348
2021	1360	703	4	656	106	-	835	353	15	4032
2022	1173	551	31	628	167	6	697	286	5	3544
2024	1116	515	19	528	183	2	614	319	13	3309
Total	48169	6217	361	8258	1246	37	8151	3227	33	75699

Values

• 1 much better

• 2 somewhat better

• 3 about the same

• 4 somewhat worse

• 5 much worse

• 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