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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 25. Which of the categories on this card comes closest to the type of place you were living in when you were 16 years old?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
year | don't know | farm | in a large city (over 250,000) | in a medium-size city (50,000-250,000) | in a small city or town (under 50,000) | in a suburb near a large city | in open country but not on a farm | no answer | iap | skipped on web | Total |
1972 | 1 | 340 | 334 | 198 | 500 | 91 | 147 | 2 | - | - | 1613 |
1973 | 2 | 343 | 250 | 188 | 479 | 106 | 135 | 1 | - | - | 1504 |
1974 | - | 362 | 222 | 192 | 438 | 123 | 144 | 3 | - | - | 1484 |
1975 | - | 337 | 250 | 179 | 430 | 102 | 192 | - | - | - | 1490 |
1976 | 1 | 341 | 242 | 186 | 448 | 120 | 160 | 1 | - | - | 1499 |
1977 | 2 | 344 | 211 | 187 | 524 | 88 | 170 | 4 | - | - | 1530 |
1978 | 1 | 333 | 215 | 206 | 472 | 130 | 174 | 1 | - | - | 1532 |
1980 | - | 310 | 225 | 204 | 465 | 118 | 145 | 1 | - | - | 1468 |
1982 | - | 377 | 311 | 231 | 577 | 166 | 187 | 11 | - | - | 1860 |
1983 | - | 252 | 241 | 244 | 536 | 156 | 170 | - | - | - | 1599 |
1984 | 2 | 318 | 206 | 200 | 466 | 133 | 144 | 4 | - | - | 1473 |
1985 | 1 | 281 | 189 | 235 | 523 | 154 | 146 | 5 | - | - | 1534 |
1986 | - | 268 | 229 | 247 | 449 | 137 | 140 | - | - | - | 1470 |
1987 | 1 | 341 | 306 | 295 | 489 | 176 | 206 | 5 | - | - | 1819 |
1988 | - | 252 | 219 | 217 | 477 | 142 | 172 | 2 | - | - | 1481 |
1989 | 1 | 258 | 203 | 239 | 496 | 169 | 168 | 3 | - | - | 1537 |
1990 | 2 | 236 | 227 | 196 | 437 | 139 | 134 | 1 | - | - | 1372 |
1991 | 2 | 251 | 215 | 212 | 501 | 158 | 176 | 2 | - | - | 1517 |
1993 | 2 | 288 | 236 | 220 | 466 | 205 | 187 | 2 | - | - | 1606 |
1994 | 2 | 405 | 456 | 469 | 931 | 368 | 357 | 4 | - | - | 2992 |
1996 | 3 | 374 | 418 | 494 | 922 | 357 | 333 | 3 | - | - | 2904 |
1998 | 2 | 371 | 462 | 450 | 857 | 361 | 327 | 2 | - | - | 2832 |
2000 | 1 | 385 | 449 | 461 | 871 | 333 | 311 | 6 | - | - | 2817 |
2002 | 3 | 315 | 459 | 439 | 831 | 390 | 327 | 1 | - | - | 2765 |
2004 | 1 | 274 | 429 | 427 | 999 | 364 | 318 | - | - | - | 2812 |
2006 | 2 | 268 | 434 | 523 | 1005 | 385 | 374 | 1 | 1518 | - | 4510 |
2008 | 1 | 213 | 337 | 340 | 653 | 252 | 227 | - | - | - | 2023 |
2010 | 2 | 198 | 328 | 369 | 672 | 261 | 213 | 1 | - | - | 2044 |
2012 | 1 | 206 | 298 | 376 | 596 | 280 | 217 | - | - | - | 1974 |
2014 | 2 | 211 | 421 | 438 | 813 | 377 | 275 | 1 | - | - | 2538 |
2016 | 4 | 234 | 438 | 493 | 979 | 413 | 304 | 2 | - | - | 2867 |
2018 | - | 154 | 391 | 450 | 774 | 324 | 255 | - | - | - | 2348 |
2021 | 1 | 204 | 692 | 777 | 1208 | 742 | 406 | - | - | 2 | 4032 |
2022 | 7 | 189 | 630 | 648 | 1135 | 604 | 330 | - | - | 1 | 3544 |
Total | 50 | 9833 | 11173 | 11230 | 22419 | 8424 | 7671 | 69 | 1518 | 3 | 72390 |
1
in open country but not on a farm
2
farm
3
in a small city or town (under 50,000)
4
in a medium-size city (50,000-250,000)
5
in a suburb near a large city
6
in a large city (over 250,000)
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(q)
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