R's self ranking of social position

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Source

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

Details

Question In our society there are groups which tend to be towards the top and those that are towards the bottom. Here we have a scale that runs from top to bottom. A. Where would you put yourself on this scale? HAND SCALE AND PENCIL TO RESPONDENT. LET RESPONDENT MARK SCALE. Be sure that the mark is within one of the boxes. Record answer below.

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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	2000, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022
D/-/-	2006
Full	1983, 1987

Overview

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

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
1983	804	65	15	50	112	98	241	78	60	39	9	17	11	-	1599
1987	255	47	48	36	170	230	460	230	149	95	32	-	67	-	1819
2000	1545	33	18	33	117	174	352	188	117	64	24	7	145	-	2817
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
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
Total	10978	1223	366	845	2873	3178	7479	2254	1668	896	257	451	393	43	32904