Satisfaction with financial situation

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Source

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

Details

Question 187a. We are interested in how people are getting along financially these days. So far as you and your family are concerned, would you say that you are pretty well satisfied with your present financial situation, more or less satisfied, or not satisfied at all?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	don't know	more or less satisfied	no answer	not satisfied at all	pretty well satisfied	iap	skipped on web	Total
1972	1	720	4	366	522	-	-	1613
1973	1	683	2	357	461	-	-	1504
1974	2	674	4	343	461	-	-	1484
1975	4	627	7	394	458	-	-	1490
1976	4	686	3	348	458	-	-	1499
1977	3	664	6	337	520	-	-	1530
1978	2	646	1	365	518	-	-	1532
1980	4	652	2	393	417	-	-	1468
1982	5	814	8	579	454	-	-	1860
1983	5	657	2	479	456	-	-	1599
1984	3	668	6	381	415	-	-	1473
1985	5	671	4	401	453	-	-	1534
1986	3	626	1	395	445	-	-	1470
1987	2	855	6	454	502	-	-	1819
1988	3	663	4	360	451	-	-	1481
1989	4	678	1	385	469	-	-	1537
1990	3	591	2	370	406	-	-	1372
1991	5	687	6	402	417	-	-	1517
1993	7	712	3	454	430	-	-	1606
1994	5	1365	11	779	832	-	-	2992
1996	4	1287	4	806	803	-	-	2904
1998	5	1255	3	720	849	-	-	2832
2000	9	1261	5	708	834	-	-	2817
2002	2	568	1	391	410	1393	-	2765
2004	3	562	2	354	419	1472	-	2812
2006	4	1310	8	774	896	1518	-	4510
2008	5	819	2	624	573	-	-	2023
2010	1	918	5	642	478	-	-	2044
2012	2	857	5	573	537	-	-	1974
2014	3	1141	3	693	698	-	-	2538
2016	5	1255	6	785	816	-	-	2867
2018	7	1047	3	554	737	-	-	2348
2021	-	1800	1	962	1254	-	15	4032
2022	7	1568	4	1081	877	-	7	3544
2024	6	1456	5	1061	774	-	7	3309
Total	134	31443	140	19070	20500	4383	29	75699

Values

1 pretty well satisfied
2 more or less satisfied
3 not satisfied at all
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