Racial makeup of workplace

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Source

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

Details

Question 412. Are the people who work where you work all white, mostly white, about half and half, mostly black, or all black?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	about half and half	all black	all white	don't know	mostly black	mostly white	no answer	works alone	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	1481	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	1537	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	495	98	8	276	58	25	387	24	1	-	1372
1991	1517	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	1606	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	2992	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	2199	130	6	182	8	25	333	21	-	-	2904
1998	1564	224	13	366	17	46	581	21	-	-	2832
2000	1581	242	8	314	15	59	574	24	-	-	2817
2002	2156	117	7	155	10	28	291	1	-	-	2765
2004	2220	131	3	163	6	25	259	5	-	-	2812
2006	3264	307	7	290	33	52	548	9	-	-	4510
2008	1198	229	8	168	30	49	336	5	-	-	2023
2010	1284	167	4	159	30	37	358	5	-	-	2044
2012	1196	192	5	167	22	42	333	17	-	-	1974
2014	1504	321	5	194	23	42	443	6	-	-	2538
2016	1735	340	11	210	27	42	483	19	-	-	2867
2018	1389	291	6	160	41	59	387	15	-	-	2348
2021	2539	397	5	163	78	49	757	30	-	14	4032
2022	2196	456	11	146	71	67	580	14	-	3	3544
2024	2057	-	-	-	-	-	-	1250	-	2	3309
Total	59585	3642	107	3113	469	647	6650	1466	1	19	75699

Values

• 1 all white

• 2 mostly white

• 3 about half and half

• 4 mostly black

• 5 all black

• 6 works alone

• 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