Region of residence, age 16

reg16

Source

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

Details

Question In what state or foreign country were you living when you were 16 years old? As of 2024, REG16 has been recoded to only account for four categories. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of REG16. The original REG16 containing data from 1972 to 2022 has been renamed REG16_7222.

Values

• 0 foreign

• 1 new england

• 2 middle atlantic

• 3 east north central

• 4 west north central

• 5 south atlantic

• 6 east south atlantic

• 7 west south central

• 8 mountain

• 9 pacific

• 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

year	ballots	availability
1972	-/-/-/-	full
1973	-/-/-/-	full
1974	-/-/-/-	full
1975	-/-/-/-	full
1976	-/-/-/-	full
1977	-/-/-/-	full
1978	-/-/-/-	full
1980	-/-/-/-	full
1982	-/-/-/-	full
1983	-/-/-/-	full
1984	-/-/-/-	full
1985	-/-/-/-	full
1986	-/-/-/-	full
1987	-/-/-/-	full
1988	A/B/C/-	full
1989	A/B/C/-	full
1990	A/B/C/-	full
1991	A/B/C/-	full
1993	A/B/C/-	full
1994	A/B/C/-	full
1996	A/B/C/-	full
1998	A/B/C/-	full
2000	A/B/C/-	full
2002	A/B/C/-	full
2004	A/B/C/-	full
2006	A/B/C/D	full
2008	A/B/C/-	full
2010	A/B/C/-	full
2012	A/B/C/-	full
2014	A/B/C/-	full
2016	A/B/C/-	full
2018	A/B/C/-	full
2021	A/B/C/-	full
2022	A/B/C/-	full
2024	A/B/C/-	full

Link at the GSS

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for reg16.

See also

Other Core: cobarate, coeftotlt, cogradtounder, mobile16, race, res16, sex, spbarate, spgradtounder