The General Social Survey is a high-quality survey which gathers data on American society and opinions, conducted since 1972. This data set is a sample of 500 entries from the GSS, spanning years 1973-2018, including demographic markers and some economic variables. Note that this data is included for demonstration only, and should not be assumed to provide accurate estimates relating to the GSS. However, due to the high quality of the GSS, the unweighted data will approximate the weighted data in some analyses.
Format
A tibble with 500 rows and 11 variables:
- year
year respondent was surveyed
- age
age at time of survey, truncated at 89
- sex
respondent's sex (self-identified)
- college
whether on not respondent has a college degree, including junior/community college
- partyid
political party affiliation
- hompop
number of persons in household
- hours
number of hours worked in week before survey, truncated at 89
- income
total family income
- class
subjective socioeconomic class identification
- finrela
opinion of family income
- weight
survey weight