Region of residence, age 16

reg16_7222

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

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

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for reg16_7222.

Counts by year:

year	foreign	new england	middle atlantic	east north central	west north central	south atlantic	east south atlantic	west south central	mountain	pacific	iap	don't know	skipped on web	not available in this year	Total
1972	66	88	300	282	178	196	119	209	43	132	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	58	59	258	298	129	288	110	133	42	129	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	54	59	253	322	143	259	103	129	42	120	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	50	55	260	311	125	272	120	127	57	113	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	66	64	263	315	143	250	111	122	51	114	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	73	69	243	357	112	279	100	120	47	130	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	61	67	269	327	137	272	107	129	42	121	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	64	53	237	304	129	243	127	126	59	126	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	73	56	297	384	137	372	186	168	56	131	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	76	92	271	344	161	217	125	126	63	124	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	62	85	222	309	142	208	136	126	63	120	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	66	100	215	270	162	215	148	148	75	135	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	72	85	222	306	145	195	133	117	73	122	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	67	76	264	356	167	336	217	135	73	128	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	76	83	220	288	155	220	110	132	74	123	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	82	75	237	312	147	230	116	118	69	151	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	70	70	220	267	144	191	108	107	62	133	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	66	89	234	292	135	242	127	124	66	142	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	84	57	244	332	136	223	137	155	66	172	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	166	140	468	522	252	466	222	303	142	311	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	180	166	465	563	213	414	216	251	145	291	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	174	145	452	523	225	433	203	274	143	260	-	-	-	-	2832
2000	191	129	470	510	204	401	204	286	148	274	-	-	-	-	2817
2002	195	148	443	546	215	382	202	253	117	264	-	-	-	-	2765
2004	194	105	398	548	190	459	151	295	160	312	-	-	-	-	2812
2006	489	165	591	802	284	762	252	404	253	508	-	-	-	-	4510
2008	193	83	289	359	144	326	101	175	104	249	-	-	-	-	2023
2010	189	76	294	380	134	321	130	179	97	244	-	-	-	-	2044
2012	205	102	248	347	133	332	113	163	98	233	-	-	-	-	1974
2014	280	118	359	447	144	379	155	208	146	302	-	-	-	-	2538
2016	249	159	371	552	185	435	187	243	147	339	-	-	-	-	2867
2018	217	115	268	405	150	397	147	230	116	303	-	-	-	-	2348
2021	282	176	543	812	335	536	235	356	242	501	14	-	-	-	4032
2022	315	177	393	613	242	633	199	315	195	452	-	1	9	-	3544
Total	4805	3386	10781	13905	5777	11384	5157	6486	3376	7309	14	1	9	0	72390

See also

Other Core: hompop_exp_22, raceacs14_2122, region_7222

Other Region: region_7222