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General Social Survey data, 1972-2024

Source: R/data.r
gss_lon.Rd

A dataset containing an extract from the General Social Survey. See http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation for full documentation of the variables. This data contains many of the same variables as `gss_sm`, but for all available years from 1972-2024.

Usage

gss_lon

Format

A data frame with 75,699 rows and 25 columns.

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Details

  • year. GSS year for this respondent.

  • id. Respondent id number.

  • ballot. Ballot used for interview.

  • age. Age of respondent.

  • degree. R's highest degree.

  • race. Race of respondent.

  • sex. Respondent's sex.

  • siblings. Number of brothers and sisters (recoded from SIBS).

  • kids. Number of children (recoded from CHILDS).

  • bigregion. Region of interview (identical with REGION).

  • region. Region of interview.

  • income16. Total family income.

  • religion. R's religious preference (recoded from RELIGION)

  • marital. Marital status.

  • padeg. Father's highest degree.

  • madeg. Mother's highest degree.

  • partyid. Political party affiliation.

  • polviews. Think of self as liberal or conservative.

  • happy. General happiness.

  • partners_rc. How many sex partners r had in last year. (Recoded from PARTNERS)

  • grass. Should marijuana be made legal.

  • zodiac. Respondent's astrological sign.

  • wtssall. Person weight variable (1972-2018).

  • wtssps. Person weight variable (1972-2024).

  • vpsu. Sampling unit

  • vstrat. Stratification unit