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ballot	Ballot used for interview
id	Respondent id number
year	Gss year for this respondent

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Age of 6th person

Variable: old6

Module:

Household Members and Structure

Subject:

Family

Household

Survey Questions

Questions associated with this variable:

Please tell me the names of the people who usually live in this household. Let's start with the head of the household. [LIST ON LINES 01-10 BELOW.]
Have we forgotten anyone: such as babies or small children; roomers; people who usually live here, but are away temporarily--on business trips, vacations, at school, temporarily in a hospital, and so on? [LIST ADDITIONAL PERSONS ON LINES 01-10 BELOW.]
Are there any people currently staying here--visitors, friends or relatives--do not usually live here? [LIST VISITORS ON LINES 11-14 BELOW.]
A. What is that [PERSON'S] relationship to the HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD?
B. Code sex. [ASK IF NOT OBVIOUS].
C. How old was [HEAD/PERSON] on (his/her) last birthday?
D. IF 13 YRS OR OLDER ASK: Is [PERSON] now married, widowed, divorced, separated, or has (he/she) never been married?
E. Are any of the people we have listed staying somewhere else right now? If yes, who is staying somewhere else right now?
F. Where is [PERSON] staying right now? Is [PERSON] staying at another household;
Is (he/she) traveling; Is (he/she) in some institution or dormitory--like at college or in a hospital or something; or what?
3. Age of sixth person

Year Availability

Available in 29 of 32 years total. Hover over a year to see ballot information.

Summary by Year

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-1	Not applicable
98	Don't know
99	No answer

1975	1976	1977	1978	1980	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1993	1994	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010	2012	2014	2016	2018
2	2	4	8	5	3	2	4	4	7	7	3	2	2	2	1	4	5	0	5	0	0	6	3	3	3	5	3	0
2	3	7	8	4	6	3	3	2	3	10	5	4	2	5	5	5	7	13	8	12	5	16	10	7	8	9	10	4
3	6	2	2	3	3	5	5	4	3	4	2	3	4	5	4	9	10	5	6	3	11	14	7	11	3	3	5	4
6	2	8	4	6	4	7	7	6	4	6	5	5	7	2	5	9	8	6	4	5	4	13	3	4	5	2	3	6
5	8	5	3	5	5	5	9	5	0	4	8	3	3	2	3	9	9	4	6	6	4	9	6	5	6	5	5	5
8	1	8	5	2	4	6	3	5	7	6	1	10	3	4	2	7	7	5	1	4	7	13	1	4	4	1	6	0
7	1	5	8	3	4	4	5	2	3	1	6	6	1	4	5	5	5	3	5	4	6	2	6	4	7	3	4	0
6	1	6	5	1	4	5	3	1	2	4	2	7	3	3	2	5	5	9	9	5	4	12	3	8	4	4	6	8
5	2	6	7	3	9	2	3	3	6	6	2	5	3	2	2	5	4	8	7	3	7	10	2	4	1	6	9	4
9	4	14	4	1	3	6	1	3	2	3	0	3	1	3	3	4	10	4	3	3	2	5	4	9	4	2	4	3
8	4	3	3	7	5	4	4	5	2	4	0	4	3	3	1	6	6	8	3	1	6	8	2	2	2	6	2	1
9	1	8	7	3	7	2	3	4	5	2	4	2	1	1	1	5	3	1	5	8	3	6	5	3	2	2	2	3
10	2	11	4	6	5	6	4	4	1	3	0	2	0	2	0	2	4	3	6	1	7	8	0	2	3	5	2	2
14	5	6	7	8	7	4	3	2	3	6	1	2	2	2	1	4	7	1	5	0	3	4	1	2	4	4	4	1
9	2	6	8	5	6	2	4	1	2	2	1	4	2	0	0	2	1	2	1	2	2	3	2	2	3	1	4	1
7	1	3	5	0	6	4	1	2	2	3	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	5	6	1	3	0	1	2	1	2	5	1
1	1	4	4	4	2	3	0	1	5	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	2	2	1	2	1	2	1
4	0	4	3	2	2	2	0	0	2	2	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	3	1	6	1	2	2	1
3	0	0	1	1	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	3	0	1	2	2	0
2	1	2	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	2	0	3	2	1	1	3	1	3	1	1	1	1	2	0	1	1	0
0	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	2	1	1	0
0	0	0	1	0	2	3	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	1
1	0	1	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	0
1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1363	1452	1413	1424	1392	1763	1513	1402	1472	1402	1727	1428	1464	1325	1468	1566	2900	2791	2741	2721	2701	2724	4358	1950	1950	1898	2463	2770	2294
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	2	0
0	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	4	5	2	2	1	2	3	4	1	3	6	2

Summary Statistics

Valid cases	2272
Missing cases	60194

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