If rich, continue or stop working

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Source

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

Details

Question 182. If you were to get enough money to live as comfortably as you would like for the rest of your life, would you continue to work or would you stop working?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	continue to work	don't know	no answer	stop working	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	652	566	12	21	253	-	1504
1974	641	532	16	6	289	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	721	515	11	21	231	-	1499
1977	572	658	14	4	282	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	570	674	9	12	203	-	1468
1982	703	816	18	11	312	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	510	721	6	8	228	-	1473
1985	538	680	10	8	298	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	622	888	8	11	290	-	1819
1988	852	440	6	3	180	-	1481
1989	883	462	9	5	178	-	1537
1990	770	426	8	8	160	-	1372
1991	891	412	8	2	204	-	1517
1993	901	474	13	5	213	-	1606
1994	1610	895	16	6	465	-	2992
1996	1513	927	22	5	437	-	2904
1998	1524	894	18	5	391	-	2832
2000	1544	833	22	6	412	-	2817
2002	2113	444	4	3	201	-	2765
2004	2187	430	2	8	185	-	2812
2006	3197	896	10	4	403	-	4510
2008	1137	629	7	5	245	-	2023
2010	1183	591	5	9	256	-	2044
2012	1129	580	4	12	249	-	1974
2014	1440	749	3	1	345	-	2538
2016	1646	860	6	11	344	-	2867
2018	1326	723	6	13	280	-	2348
2021	2367	1004	-	34	620	7	4032
2022	2082	950	4	2	502	4	3544
2024	1957	872	10	4	461	5	3309
Total	45485	20541	287	253	9117	16	75699

Values

• 1 continue to work

• 2 stop working

• 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