R's self ranking of social position

rank

Source

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

Details

Question 186. In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and those that are towards the bottom. Here we have ascale that runs from top (1) to bottom (10). a. Where would you put yourself on this scale?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	1 - top	10 - bottom	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	don't know	no answer	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	804	65	15	50	112	98	241	78	60	39	9	17	11	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	255	47	48	36	170	230	460	230	149	95	32	-	67	-	1819
1988	1481	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	1537	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	1372	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	1517	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	1606	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	2992	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	2904	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	2832	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2832
2000	1545	33	18	33	117	174	352	188	117	64	24	7	145	-	2817
2002	2765	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2765
2004	1596	115	11	66	180	165	424	109	56	35	15	22	18	-	2812
2006	2992	101	25	95	247	204	517	125	92	55	10	43	4	-	4510
2008	2023	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2023
2010	-	114	25	72	257	290	735	213	157	70	20	65	26	-	2044
2012	-	113	31	68	236	240	714	221	151	80	16	72	32	-	1974
2014	-	156	39	85	297	367	930	253	194	105	20	71	21	-	2538
2016	-	163	45	102	366	421	1000	284	227	130	50	48	31	-	2867
2018	-	131	41	88	292	338	817	246	199	83	25	61	27	-	2348
2021	2031	76	30	89	361	365	685	142	134	64	20	3	2	30	4032
2022	1755	109	38	61	238	286	604	165	132	76	16	42	9	13	3544
2024	1656	85	37	58	223	227	584	149	131	72	17	38	9	23	3309
Total	52120	1308	403	903	3096	3405	8063	2403	1799	968	274	489	402	66	75699

Values

• 1 1 - top

• 10 10 - bottom

• 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