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Source

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

Details

Question Household Size and Composition (see Appendix D: Recodes, for information about these variables). C. NUMBER OF MEMBERS 13 TO 17 YEARS OLD: As of 2024, TEENS has been recoded to only account for 0 to 2+ teenagers in the household. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of TEENS. The original TEENS containing data from 1972 to 2022 has been renamed TEENS_7222.

Values

  • 0 0 household members between 13 to 17

  • 8 8 or more

  • 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

yearballotsavailability
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
1988A/B/C/-full
1989A/B/C/-full
1990A/B/C/-full
1991A/B/C/-full
1993A/B/C/-full
1994A/B/C/-full
1996A/B/C/-full
1998A/B/C/-full
2000A/B/C/-full
2002A/B/C/-full
2004A/B/C/-full
2006A/B/C/Dfull
2008A/B/C/-full
2010A/B/C/-full
2012A/B/C/-full
2014A/B/C/-full
2016A/B/C/-full
2018A/B/C/-full
2021A/B/C/-full
2022A/B/C/-full
2024A/B/C/-full

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