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Rs living standard compared to parents
Variable: parsol
Module:
Core
Subject:
Parents
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Social Mobility
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Survey Questions
Questions associated with this variable:

A. Compared to your parents when they were the age you are now, Do you think your own standard of living now is much better, somewhat better, about the same, somewhat worse, or much worse than theirs was?

Year Availability
Available in 13 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 Much better
2 Somewhat better
3 About the same
4 Somewhat worse
5 Much worse
8 Don't know
9 No answer
0 Not applicable
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
460 619 626 646 303 329 671 417 389 413 505 573 495
478 564 589 579 298 251 624 394 394 368 478 555 433
313 401 408 396 175 173 421 290 341 296 406 466 362
170 229 199 178 99 83 196 166 173 162 195 238 181
47 74 57 57 24 30 52 72 64 69 79 100 65
26 34 31 37 12 9 23 25 15 29 22 20 24
6 4 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 3
1492 979 921 921 1853 1936 2521 658 667 636 851 912 785
Summary Statistics
Valid cases 18422
Missing cases 44044