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Opinion of family income
Variable: finrela
Module:
Core
Subject:
Income
Related Variables
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Survey Questions
Questions associated with this variable:

Compared with American families in general, would you say your family income is far below average, below average, average, above average, or far above average? (PROBE: Just your best guess.)

Year Availability
Available in 32 of 32 years total. Hover over a year to see ballot information.
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Summary by Year
Showing All Years
Code Label
1 Far below average
2 Below average
3 Average
4 Above average
5 Far above average
8 Don't know
9 No answer
0 Not applicable
1972 1973 1974 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
58 54 57 66 61 80 70 70 113 99 76 89 83 94 67 65 67 77 102 138 177 168 165 86 70 186 145 150 158 179 183 153
351 283 307 349 372 359 341 342 520 368 346 351 349 469 343 352 320 346 373 714 700 639 615 340 322 738 545 606 539 666 764 597
918 875 824 777 819 780 811 763 928 777 756 783 727 884 761 771 684 763 776 1436 1384 1322 1354 646 622 1422 885 851 858 1118 1232 1042
254 258 267 267 219 269 275 246 252 294 261 270 270 327 267 313 266 284 305 592 534 595 562 255 272 562 385 360 342 483 585 476
18 22 18 19 13 28 26 33 21 37 22 29 30 24 31 24 27 27 31 68 73 64 87 36 37 53 40 52 55 65 75 53
9 12 7 9 12 9 9 11 18 20 8 9 10 14 9 11 7 13 12 30 27 39 29 8 12 22 18 16 18 21 19 21
5 0 4 3 3 5 0 3 8 4 4 3 1 7 3 1 1 7 7 14 9 5 5 1 5 9 5 9 4 6 9 6
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1393 1472 1518 0 0 0 0 0 0
Summary Statistics
Valid cases 57465
Missing cases 5001