Sex before marriage

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Source

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

Details

Question 217. There's been a lot of discussion about the way morals and attitudes about sex are changing in this country. If a man and woman have sex relations before marriage, do you think it is always wrong, almost always wrong, wrong only sometimes, or not wrong at all?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	almost always wrong	always wrong	don't know	no answer	not wrong at all	wrong only sometimes	iap	skipped on web	Total
1972	182	563	65	11	419	373	-	-	1613
1973	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504	-	1504
1974	181	472	48	7	439	337	-	-	1484
1975	176	441	58	5	468	342	-	-	1490
1976	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499	-	1499
1977	141	459	39	10	541	340	-	-	1530
1978	175	437	34	4	578	304	-	-	1532
1980	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468	-	1468
1982	152	520	55	11	763	359	-	-	1860
1983	155	427	31	7	601	378	-	-	1599
1984	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473	-	1473
1985	123	422	48	4	643	294	-	-	1534
1986	127	396	39	6	574	328	-	-	1470
1987	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819	-	1819
1988	102	251	27	6	388	214	493	-	1481
1989	84	272	31	4	394	221	531	-	1537
1990	103	229	32	3	356	205	444	-	1372
1991	98	274	28	3	435	186	493	-	1517
1993	106	283	27	3	443	218	526	-	1606
1994	192	496	60	10	830	389	1015	-	2992
1996	183	452	58	6	832	429	944	-	2904
1998	166	476	65	2	784	378	961	-	2832
2000	157	502	75	10	749	384	940	-	2817
2002	73	242	18	5	394	176	1857	-	2765
2004	79	238	18	5	409	157	1906	-	2812
2006	167	509	44	11	882	379	2518	-	4510
2008	90	305	30	6	692	206	694	-	2023
2010	116	305	21	5	742	241	614	-	2044
2012	72	273	33	14	704	206	672	-	1974
2014	111	324	18	9	956	257	863	-	2538
2016	100	389	25	10	1101	263	979	-	2867
2018	95	278	19	11	943	213	789	-	2348
2021	162	390	9	2	1761	367	1315	26	4032
2022	104	308	36	8	1607	305	1168	8	3544
2024	122	357	50	6	1378	258	1126	12	3309
Total	3894	11290	1141	204	21806	8707	28611	46	75699

Values

• 1 always wrong

• 2 almost always wrong

• 3 wrong only sometimes

• 4 not wrong at all

• 5 other

• 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