gss_lon: General Social Survey data, 1972-2016

In kjhealy/socviz: Utility Functions and Data Sets for Data Visualization

Description

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 the same variables as 'gss_sm', but for all available years from 1972-2016.

Usage

gss_lon

Format

A data frame with 62,366 rows and 26 variables.

Details

• year. gss year for this respondent.

• id. respondent id number.

• ballot. ballot used for interview.

• age. age of respondent.

• degree. Rs 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 (recoded from REGION).

• income16. total family income.

• religion. rs religious preference (recoded from RELIGION)

• marital. marital status.

• padeg. fathers highest degree.

• madeg. mothers 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. respondents astrological sign.

• pres12. R's stated vote in the 2012 Presidential election

• wtssall. weight variable.

• vpsu. Sampling unit

• vstrat. Stratification unit

Source

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

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