Race of respondent

race

Source

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

Details

Question CODE WITHOUT ASKING ONLY IF THERE IS NO DOUBT IN YOUR MIND. What race do you consider yourself? RECORD VERBATIM AND CODE.

Values

• [1] white

• [2] black

• [3] 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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C/-	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024
A/B/C/D	2006
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 race.

Counts by year:

year	white	black	other	iap	Total
1972	1348	261	4	-	1613
1973	1308	183	13	-	1504
1974	1304	173	7	-	1484
1975	1323	163	4	-	1490
1976	1361	129	9	-	1499
1977	1339	176	15	-	1530
1978	1358	158	16	-	1532
1980	1318	140	10	-	1468
1982	1323	510	27	-	1860
1983	1416	165	18	-	1599
1984	1251	170	52	-	1473
1985	1338	152	44	-	1534
1986	1249	184	37	-	1470
1987	1222	544	53	-	1819
1988	1234	186	61	-	1481
1989	1319	157	61	-	1537
1990	1150	159	63	-	1372
1991	1264	204	49	-	1517
1993	1347	179	80	-	1606
1994	2483	388	121	-	2992
1996	2349	402	153	-	2904
1998	2241	400	191	-	2832
2000	2213	429	175	-	2817
2002	2188	410	167	-	2765
2004	2234	377	201	-	2812
2006	3284	634	592	-	4510
2008	1559	281	183	-	2023
2010	1550	311	183	-	2044
2012	1477	301	196	-	1974
2014	1890	386	262	-	2538
2016	2100	490	277	-	2867
2018	1693	385	270	-	2348
2021	3110	463	405	54	4032
2022	2514	565	412	53	3544
2024	2280	572	392	65	3309
Total	59937	10787	4803	172	75699

See also

Other Core: cobarate, coeftotlt, cogradtounder, mobile16, reg16, res16, sex, spbarate, spgradtounder