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racecen1

Source

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

Details

Question What is your race? Indicate one or more races that you consider yourself to be. A. First mention As of 2024, RACECEN1 has been recoded to combine Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, and Samoan into the "Other Pacific Islander" category. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of RACECEN1. The original RACECEN1 containing data from 2000 to 2022 has been renamed RACECEN1_0022.

Values

  • [1] white

  • [2] black or african american

  • [3] american indian or alaska native

  • [4] asian indian

  • [5] chinese

  • [6] filipino

  • [7] japanese

  • [8] korean

  • [9] vietnamese

  • [10] other asian

  • [14] other pacific islander

  • [15] some other race

  • [16] hispanic

  • [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
A/B/C/-2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024
A/B/C/D2006

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for racecen1.

Counts by year:

yearnot available in this yearwhiteblack or african americanamerican indian or alaska nativeasian indianchinesefilipinojapanesevietnameseother asianother pacific islandersome other racehispaniciapkoreandon't knowno answerskipped on webTotal
2000-1093201163512237213411419----2817
2002-21754023311191754631074-321-2765
2004-2222374262129246185975-723-2812
2006-347063041323623178141332177-854-4510
2008-1545280271812154349783-583-2023
2010-15393042013148145441388-648-2044
2012-1471297292014934831188-764-1974
2014-187838542212112418512122-5913-2538
2016-2088487582519227410413103-3915-2867
2018-1679382361512156317428126-5911-2348
2021-31104634445391513520956136623399-4032
2022-25145656336262589166661462511919-3544
2024-22805724742352612524113614927582643309
Total027064534248230228122310155146783061408147788110116437583