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Gender & Marriage
Children & Working
- Number of children*
- Working mom can have as good relationship with child as non-working mother (agree/disagree)
- Better for man to work and woman to stay home (agree/disagree)
- Preschool kids suffer if mother works (agree/disagree)
- Approve or disapprove of married women working
- Family life suffers because men focus too much on work (agree/disagree)
- Single parents can raise kids as well as two parents (agree/disagree)
- Agree or disagree that sometimes necessary to spank child
Marriage
- People should live together before marriage (agree/disagree)
- Should divorce be easier/more difficult to obtain
- Ever been divorced or separated
- Happiness of marriage
- Bad marriage better than none at all (agree/disagree)
- Does respondent have marital partner?
- Favor law against racial intermarriage* (non-black respondents all years)
- Favor law against racial intermarriage* (all races since 1978)
- Ever been widowed
- Should women work after marriage and before kids
Sex & Sexual Orientation
- Is it wrong for same-sex adults to have sexual relations
- Homosexuals should have right to marry (agree/disagree)
- Should birth control be available to teens (14-16) if parents don't approve
- Is it wrong to have sex before marriage - alternate wording
- Is it wrong to have sex before marriage - original wording
- Sexual orientation
- Is it wrong for teens (14-16) to have sex before marriage
- Is it wrong to have sex with person other than spouse
Life Satisfaction
About this trend
GSS VARIABLES
|
Variable
|
Question Text |
| Bad marriage better than none at all |
Do you agree or disagree? E. It is better to have a bad marriage than no marriage at all. |
| Gss year for this respondent |
N/A |
| Age of respondent |
RESPONDENT'S AGE |
| Subjective class identification |
A. If you were asked to use one of four names for your social class, which would you say you belong in: the lower class, the working class, the middle class, or the upper class? |
| Rs highest degree |
RESPONDENT'S DEGREE |
| Condition of health |
Would you say your own health, in general, is excellent, good, fair, or poor? |
| Marital status |
Are you currently--married, widowed, divorced, separated, or have you never been married? |
| Political party affiliation |
Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or what? |
| Race of respondent |
CODE WITHOUT ASKING ONLY IF THERE IS NO DOUBT IN YOUR MIND. What race do you consider yourself? RECORD VERBATIM AND CODE. |
| Region of interview |
A. REGION OF INTERVIEW |
| Respondents sex |
CODE RESPONDENT'S SEX |
| Labor force status |
Last week were you working full time, part time, going to school, keeping house, or what? |
NOTES
1 The default weight WTSSALL was applied for all years. Oversampled black respondents (SAMPLE=4,5,7) were excluded to adjust for the oversampling procedures in 1982 and 1987. If performing in-depth or focused analyses, other weights may apply.
2 Beginning in 2004, the GSS began to use a two-stage sub-sampling design for nonresponse. To obtain weighted estimates adjusted for this non-response, users should use the WTSSNR weight in these years.
NOTES for Age°
1 The GSS variable AGE was recoded to produce this visualization. Age was recoded into four age categories: 18-34, 35-49, 50-64, and 65+.
NOTES for Subjective class identification
1 The response "No class (vol.)" was excluded from this breakdown.
NOTES for Highest degree°
1 The GSS variable DEGREE was recoded to produce this visualization. Response categories (2) Associate/Junior college, (3) Bachelor’s, and (4) Graduate have been collapsed into "College +."
NOTES for Political affiliation°
1 The GSS variable PARTYID was recoded to produce this visualization. PARTYID was recoded into four categories: (0)-(1) Democrat; (2)-(4),(7) Independent, Other; and (5)-(6) Republican. See GSS Methodological Report No. 56 for more information.
NOTES for Race
1 If planning to perform trend analysis with the variable RACE, see GSS Methodological Report No. 56.
2 Interviewers were instructed to code RACE without asking only if there was no doubt. From 2002 onwards, this item is imputed based on RACECEN1,23; ETHNIC, ETH1,2,3; and HISPANIC. See the GSS Cumulative Codebook for more information.
NOTES for Region of interview°
1 The GSS variable REGION was recoded to produce this visualization. REGION was recoded into four categories: (1)-(2) Northeast; (3)-(4) Midwest; (5)-(7) South; (8)-(9) West. These are in alignment with the Census regional groupings.
NOTES for Sex
1 If planning to perform trend analysis with the variable SEX, see GSS Methodological Report No. 56.
NOTES for Labor force status°
1 The GSS variable WRKSTAT was recoded to produce this visualization. WRKSTAT was recoded into three categories: (1)-(3) Employed, (4) Unemployed, and (5)-(8) Not in labor force/Other. This is in alignment with the Bureau of Labor Statistic's labor force definitions.
2 If planning to perform trend analysis with the variable WRKSTAT, see GSS Methodological Report No. 56.