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Was father self-employed?

Source: R/gss_vars_474.R
paslf.Rd

paslf

Source

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

Details

Question Here is a list of different types of jobs. Which type did your father have when you were 16. (If your father did not have a job then, please give the job he used to have.) A. Was your father self-employed, or did he work for someone else?

Values

  • 1 self-employed

  • 2 someone else

  • 3 no dad-never had job

  • 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

yearballotsavailability
1987-full

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

See also

Other ISSP Social Inequality: conage, firstjob, firstslf, lastjob, lastslf, occmobil, pajob, rewrdeff, rewrdint