Spouse labor force status

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Source

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

Details

Question 5. Last week was your (wife/husband) working full time, part time, going to school, keeping house, or what?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	in school	keeping house	no answer	other	retired	unemployed, laid off, looking for work	with a job, but not at work because of temporary illness, vacation, strike	working full time	working part time	skipped on web	don't know	Total
1972	453	9	368	2	21	68	17	15	569	91	-	-	1613
1973	428	12	303	-	20	61	8	21	580	71	-	-	1504
1974	419	6	304	-	12	71	19	18	565	70	-	-	1484
1975	488	7	263	-	15	74	27	22	513	81	-	-	1490
1976	525	11	259	-	16	91	21	19	482	75	-	-	1499
1977	555	10	250	1	10	89	17	22	503	73	-	-	1530
1978	571	8	224	1	19	78	17	26	505	83	-	-	1532
1980	579	9	188	2	11	92	18	26	468	75	-	-	1468
1982	867	7	217	1	23	93	23	16	532	81	-	-	1860
1983	634	9	199	-	16	91	39	20	505	86	-	-	1599
1984	644	7	164	1	7	84	18	22	465	61	-	-	1473
1985	663	14	175	-	13	99	17	18	454	81	-	-	1534
1986	644	5	142	1	12	121	11	19	429	86	-	-	1470
1987	903	10	142	4	14	101	16	16	527	86	-	-	1819
1988	693	7	136	2	7	128	15	14	409	70	-	-	1481
1989	690	7	126	3	14	117	16	20	474	70	-	-	1537
1990	645	12	126	3	8	93	13	16	391	65	-	-	1372
1991	713	8	120	-	16	126	15	15	436	68	-	-	1517
1993	747	6	120	3	12	112	21	18	484	83	-	-	1606
1994	1450	20	211	1	21	208	33	26	867	155	-	-	2992
1996	1513	14	182	4	24	146	13	22	841	145	-	-	2904
1998	1486	18	138	2	32	176	15	23	813	129	-	-	2832
2000	1538	16	164	8	28	149	13	15	764	122	-	-	2817
2002	1496	13	159	2	22	164	33	30	704	142	-	-	2765
2004	1333	19	178	11	35	194	34	35	840	133	-	-	2812
2006	2334	25	293	10	60	311	28	25	1237	187	-	-	4510
2008	1046	8	112	9	27	150	14	24	533	100	-	-	2023
2010	1152	21	111	8	30	145	31	17	438	91	-	-	2044
2012	1074	17	127	2	16	129	21	18	487	83	-	-	1974
2014	1376	12	147	5	22	197	27	24	610	118	-	-	2538
2016	1654	11	146	10	24	222	23	23	658	96	-	-	2867
2018	1348	10	122	7	16	161	19	23	552	90	-	-	2348
2021	2027	14	184	2	63	511	80	38	953	152	8	-	4032
2022	2074	16	156	6	24	330	27	28	741	135	4	3	3544
2024	1946	13	135	2	31	355	29	26	656	108	4	4	3309
Total	36708	411	6391	113	741	5337	788	760	20985	3442	16	7	75699

Values

• 1 working full time

• 2 working part time

• 3 with a job, but not at work because of temporary illness, vacation, strike

• 4 unemployed, laid off, looking for work

• 5 retired

• 6 in school

• 7 keeping house

• 8 other

• 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