Sex before marriage:teens 14-16

teensex

Source

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

Details

Question 217a. What if they are in their early teens, say 14 to 16 years old? In that case, do you think sex relations before marriage are always wrong, almost always wrong, wrong only sometimes, or not wrong at all?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	almost always wrong	always wrong	don't know	no answer	not wrong at all	wrong only sometimes	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	274	965	21	4	47	159	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	493	158	675	11	4	32	108	-	1481
1989	531	158	702	12	3	43	88	-	1537
1990	444	160	615	26	4	29	94	-	1372
1991	493	177	678	24	6	44	95	-	1517
1993	526	186	733	16	4	39	102	-	1606
1994	1015	336	1363	17	8	77	176	-	2992
1996	944	321	1339	23	3	83	191	-	2904
1998	961	299	1318	30	3	64	157	-	2832
2000	940	280	1337	27	5	64	164	-	2817
2002	1857	131	644	16	2	37	78	-	2765
2004	1906	137	625	11	-	43	90	-	2812
2006	2518	302	1422	21	4	76	167	-	4510
2008	694	213	925	7	4	59	121	-	2023
2010	614	221	952	7	4	81	165	-	2044
2012	672	187	872	14	5	73	151	-	1974
2014	863	251	1108	7	2	102	205	-	2538
2016	979	309	1145	19	3	181	231	-	2867
2018	789	262	892	18	7	132	248	-	2348
2021	1316	581	1196	1	3	423	479	33	4032
2022	1168	456	1052	28	6	385	438	11	3544
2024	1126	396	1028	34	4	321	378	22	3309
Total	41254	5795	21586	390	88	2435	4085	66	75699

Values

• 1 always wrong

• 2 almost always wrong

• 3 wrong only sometimes

• 4 not wrong at all

• 5 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