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Preferred racial name

Source: R/gss_vars_46.R
racname.Rd

racname

Source

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

Details

Question Which would you most like to be called, "Black", "Negro", "Colored", or "Afro- American", or does it make any difference?

Values

  • [1] black

  • [2] negro

  • [3] colored

  • [4] afro-american

  • [8] makes no difference

  • [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
-1982

Overview

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

Counts by year:

yeariapblacknegrocoloredafro-americanmakes no differenceno answernot available in this yearTotal
198213502642923291587-1860
Total1350264292329158701860

See also

Other Core: busing, busing10, color, racchurh, rachaf, rachisch, racjob, racmost, racpres

Other Race: busing, busing10, color, racchurh, rachaf, rachisch, racjob, racmost, racpres