Spouse's highest degree

spdeg

Source

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

Details

Question 22. If finished 9th-12th grade: Did he/she ever get a high school diploma or a GED certificate?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	associate/junior college	bachelor's	don't know	graduate	high school	iap	less than high school	no answer	skipped on web	Total
1972	10	92	15	37	568	453	403	35	-	1613
1973	20	100	2	53	500	428	379	22	-	1504
1974	20	95	5	42	526	419	373	4	-	1484
1975	17	92	3	50	524	488	315	1	-	1490
1976	21	79	2	50	483	525	336	3	-	1499
1977	27	97	4	45	478	555	319	5	-	1530
1978	29	90	7	55	508	571	268	4	-	1532
1980	24	82	2	56	469	579	250	6	-	1468
1982	24	115	8	50	521	867	272	3	-	1860
1983	34	117	4	58	535	634	216	1	-	1599
1984	30	95	2	48	459	644	194	1	-	1473
1985	48	99	3	49	469	663	202	1	-	1534
1986	38	114	3	48	440	644	183	-	-	1470
1987	35	123	9	52	501	903	191	5	-	1819
1988	30	85	3	57	463	693	150	-	-	1481
1989	43	115	4	53	457	690	171	4	-	1537
1990	32	107	2	56	390	645	135	5	-	1372
1991	33	128	6	44	436	713	153	4	-	1517
1993	44	148	5	72	454	747	133	3	-	1606
1994	102	278	5	115	817	1451	214	10	-	2992
1996	99	218	2	126	753	1514	189	3	-	2904
1998	103	237	12	121	693	1487	173	6	-	2832
2000	95	209	9	116	665	1538	179	6	-	2817
2002	83	241	8	135	653	1496	149	-	-	2765
2004	115	292	5	173	733	1333	156	5	-	2812
2006	121	274	7	147	640	3095	219	7	-	4510
2008	71	195	5	105	499	1046	97	5	-	2023
2010	68	177	2	105	435	1152	103	2	-	2044
2012	56	169	2	112	444	1074	117	-	-	1974
2014	89	238	4	169	529	1376	129	4	-	2538
2016	89	261	6	163	578	1654	113	3	-	2867
2018	79	221	2	138	443	1348	112	5	-	2348
2021	146	517	19	388	769	2029	151	-	13	4032
2022	106	339	21	273	618	2074	110	2	1	3544
2024	124	345	4	241	527	1957	111	-	-	3309
Total	2105	6184	202	3602	18977	37485	6965	165	14	75699

Values

• 0 less than high school

• 1 high school

• 2 associate/junior college

• 3 bachelor's

• 4 graduate

• 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