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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

ballotsyears
-1987

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapself-employedsomeone elseno dad-never had jobno answernot available in this yearTotal
198725537292084188-1819
Total2553729208418801819

See also

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

Other Occupation: firstjob, firstslf, lastjob, lastslf, occmobil, pajob