Non-working activities, hobbies

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Source

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

Details

Question 164. For each area of life I am going to name, tell me the number that shows how much satisfaction you get from that area. b. Your non-working activities – hobbies and so on.

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	a fair amount	a little	don't know	great deal	no answer	none	quite a bit	some	very great deal	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	192	87	11	430	6	66	251	78	383	-	1504
1974	-	196	71	5	467	-	74	239	88	344	-	1484
1975	-	182	70	9	482	4	61	240	83	359	-	1490
1976	-	163	74	6	524	4	45	267	84	332	-	1499
1977	-	206	66	9	447	2	47	292	75	386	-	1530
1978	-	190	54	6	520	6	54	278	59	365	-	1532
1980	-	161	60	7	500	1	38	230	72	399	-	1468
1982	-	276	97	12	536	5	78	348	122	386	-	1860
1983	-	219	52	13	507	3	57	319	103	326	-	1599
1984	-	168	45	6	522	9	35	253	65	370	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	191	71	9	497	13	71	274	76	268	-	1470
1987	-	218	76	13	619	11	47	319	92	424	-	1819
1988	484	117	35	4	359	2	30	181	56	213	-	1481
1989	502	110	40	5	368	4	34	178	53	243	-	1537
1990	473	105	27	5	317	2	32	154	52	205	-	1372
1991	500	133	39	3	350	2	31	178	58	223	-	1517
1993	549	125	40	4	345	7	28	193	63	252	-	1606
1994	2481	58	14	-	175	2	21	93	33	115	-	2992
1996	2904	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	2832	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2832
2000	2817	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2817
2002	2765	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2765
2004	2812	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2812
2006	4510	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4510
2008	2023	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2023
2010	2044	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2044
2012	1974	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1974
2014	2538	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2538
2016	2867	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2867
2018	2348	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2348
2021	4032	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032
2022	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3544	3544
2024	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3309	3309
Total	44602	3010	1018	127	7965	83	849	4287	1312	5593	6853	75699

Values

• 1 very great deal

• 2 great deal

• 3 quite a bit

• 4 a fair amount

• 5 some

• 6 a little

• 7 none

• 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