Spouse labor force status

spwrksta

Source

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

Details

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

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

Question Years and Ballots

year	ballots	availability
1972	-/-/-/-	full
1973	-/-/-/-	full
1974	-/-/-/-	full
1975	-/-/-/-	full
1976	-/-/-/-	full
1977	-/-/-/-	full
1978	-/-/-/-	full
1980	-/-/-/-	full
1982	-/-/-/-	full
1983	-/-/-/-	full
1984	-/-/-/-	full
1985	-/-/-/-	full
1986	-/-/-/-	full
1987	-/-/-/-	full
1988	A/B/C/-	full
1989	A/B/C/-	full
1990	A/B/C/-	full
1991	A/B/C/-	full
1993	A/B/C/-	full
1994	A/B/C/-	full
1996	A/B/C/-	full
1998	A/B/C/-	full
2000	A/B/C/-	full
2002	A/B/C/-	full
2004	A/B/C/-	full
2006	A/B/C/D	full
2008	A/B/C/-	full
2010	A/B/C/-	full
2012	A/B/C/-	full
2014	A/B/C/-	full
2016	A/B/C/-	full
2018	A/B/C/-	full
2021	A/B/C/-	full
2022	A/B/C/-	full
2024	A/B/C/-	full

Link at the GSS

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for spwrksta.

See also

Other Core: coevwork, cohrs1, cowrkslf, cowrksta, divorce, spevwork, sphrs1, sphrs2, widowed