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  1. General Social Survey (GSS)

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    Mustafa Adel Ibrahim (2024). General Social Survey (GSS) [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mustafaadelibrahim/general-social-survey-gss
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    zip(31242183 bytes)Available download formats
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    May 2, 2024
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    Mustafa Adel Ibrahim
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    https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

    Description

    INTRODUCTION. GSS has run annually since 1972; it surveys a representative sample of the adult population in the American society; It is widely used by politicians, policy makers, and researchers. in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes. and asks questions about standard core of demographics, beliefs about social and political issues, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Among the topics covered are civil liberties, crime and violence, intergroup tolerance, morality, national spending priorities, psychological well-being, social ‎mobility, and stress and traumatic events. Altogether the GSS is the single best source for sociological and attitudinal trend data covering the United States. It allows researchers to examine the structure and functioning of society in general as well as the role played by relevant subgroups and to compare the United States to other nations. Source http://gss.norc.org/About-The-GSS About the Data The survey is conducted face-to-face with an in-person interview by National Opinion ‎Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. However, participation in the study is strictly voluntary. Therefore, study based on the GSS sample data is: • generalizable to the target population if we ignore the non-response bias; • definitely not causal, because the study does not employ random assignments and is only observational.

    Research Question As for the research question, I'm interested in exploring the relationship between people's job preference and their education status, using latest data. More specifically, are people's preference in a job (like job security, high income, short working hours etc.) associated with their highest degree received? Motivation: Aside from sleeping, working is the activity that takes away the most of our lifetime hours and has a huge impact on people's well-being and happiness. I would be really interested in the factors that determines peoples' attitude toward job.

    Reading the data. The data we’ll use is from the General Social Survey (GSS). Using the GSS Data Explorer, I selected a subset of the variables in the GSS and made it available along with this notebook. The survey contains more that 5000 of variables with data on a wide range of subjects, I have selected just a few.

  2. General Social Survey, 2022

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    Updated Dec 20, 2022
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    The Association of Religion Data Archives (2022). General Social Survey, 2022 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DMKAF
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    Dec 20, 2022
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    National Science Foundation
    Description

    The General Social Surveys (GSS) have been conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) annually since 1972, except for the years 1979, 1981, and 1992 (a supplement was added in 1992), and biennially beginning in 1994. The GSS are designed to be part of a program of social indicator research, replicating questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. This data file has all cases and variables asked on the 2022 GSS.

    The 2022 cross-sectional General Social Survey has been updated to Release Version 3a as of May 2024. This Release includes the addition of an oversample of minorities (based on the AmeriSpeak® Panel), household composition and respondent selection data, and post-stratified weights for all years of the GSS.

    To download syntax files for the GSS that reproduce well-known religious group recodes, including RELTRAD, please visit the "/research/syntax-repository-list" Target="_blank">ARDA's Syntax Repository.

  3. The General Social Survey (GSS)

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    Updated Nov 9, 2017
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    NORC.org (2017). The General Social Survey (GSS) [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/norc/general-social-survey
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    Dataset updated
    Nov 9, 2017
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    NORC.org
    License

    https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

    Description

    ​​The GSS gathers data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes. Hundreds of trends have been tracked since 1972. In addition, since the GSS adopted questions from earlier surveys, trends can be followed for up to 70 years.

    The GSS contains a standard core of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Among the topics covered are civil liberties, crime and violence, intergroup tolerance, morality, national spending priorities, psychological well-being, social mobility, and stress and traumatic events.

    Altogether the GSS is the single best source for sociological and attitudinal trend data covering the United States. It allows researchers to examine the structure and functioning of society in general as well as the role played by relevant subgroups and to compare the United States to other nations. (Source)

    This dataset is a csv version of the Cumulative Data File, a cross-sectional sample of the GSS from 1972-current.

  4. General Social Survey, 1972-2016 [Cumulative File]

    • icpsr.umich.edu
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    Updated Nov 14, 2017
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    Smith, Tom W.; Hout, Michael; Marsden, Peter V. (2017). General Social Survey, 1972-2016 [Cumulative File] [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36797.v1
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    delimited, spss, sas, ascii, r, stataAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Nov 14, 2017
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    Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Researchhttps://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/
    Authors
    Smith, Tom W.; Hout, Michael; Marsden, Peter V.
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    https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/36797/termshttps://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/36797/terms

    Time period covered
    1972 - 2016
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. The GSS aims to gather data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes; to examine the structure and functioning of society in general as well as the role played by relevant subgroups; to compare the United States to other societies in order to place American society in comparative perspective and develop cross-national models of human society; and to make high-quality data easily accessible to scholars, students, policy makers, and others, with minimal cost and waiting. GSS questions include such items as national spending priorities, marijuana use, crime and punishment, race relations, quality of life, and confidence in institutions. Since 1988, the GSS has also collected data on sexual behavior including number of sex partners, frequency of intercourse, extramarital relationships, and sex with prostitutes. In 1985 the GSS co-founded the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The ISSP has conducted an annual cross-national survey each year since then and has involved 58 countries and interviewed over one million respondents. The ISSP asks an identical battery of questions in all countries; the U.S. version of these questions is incorporated into the GSS. The 2016 GSS added in new variables covering information regarding social media use, suicide, hope and optimism, arts and culture, racial/ethnic identity, flexibility of work, spouses work and occupation, home cohabitation, and health.

  5. General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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    Updated 2018
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    Tom W. Smith (2018). General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7FVZG
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    2018
    Dataset provided by
    Association of Religion Data Archives
    Authors
    Tom W. Smith
    Dataset funded by
    National Science Foundation
    Description

    This file contains all of the cases and variables that are in the original 2018 General Social Survey, but is prepared for easier use in the classroom. Changes have been made in two areas. First, to avoid confusion when constructing tables or interpreting basic analysis, all missing data codes have been set to system missing. Second, many of the continuous variables have been categorized into fewer categories, and added as additional variables to the file. The General Social Surveys (GSS) have been conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) annually since 1972, except for the years 1979, 1981, and 1992 (a supplement was added in 1992), and biennially beginning in 1994. The GSS are designed to be part of a program of social indicator research, replicating questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. To download syntax files for the GSS that reproduce well-known religious group recodes, including RELTRAD, please visit the ARDA's Syntax Repository.

    The 2018 General Social Survey - Instructional Dataset has been updated as of June 2024. This release includes additional interview-specific variables and survey weights.

  6. General social survey (GSS), population 15 years and over, by union...

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    Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2004). General social survey (GSS), population 15 years and over, by union frequency and age group (x 1,000) [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.25318/3910000501-eng
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    Jan 29, 2004
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    Statistics Canadahttps://statcan.gc.ca/en
    Area covered
    Canada
    Description

    General social survey (GSS), population 15 years and over, by union frequency and age group.

  7. General Social Survey, 2018

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    Tom W. Smith (2018). General Social Survey, 2018 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7JF94
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    Dataset updated
    2018
    Dataset provided by
    Association of Religion Data Archives
    Authors
    Tom W. Smith
    Dataset funded by
    National Science Foundation
    Description

    The General Social Surveys (GSS) have been conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) annually since 1972, except for the years 1979, 1981, and 1992 (a supplement was added in 1992), and biennially beginning in 1994. The GSS are designed to be part of a program of social indicator research, replicating questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. This data file has all cases and variables asked on the 2018 GSS.

    The 2018 cross-sectional General Social Survey has been updated as of June 2024. This release includes additional interview-specific variables and survey weights. Please check the "https://gss.norc.org/" Target="_blank">NORC website for any future updates on this file.

    To download syntax files for the GSS that reproduce well-known religious group recodes, including RELTRAD, please visit the "/research/syntax-repository-list" Target="_blank">ARDA's Syntax Repository.

  8. H

    General Social Survey (GSS)

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    Harvard Dataverse (2008). General Social Survey (GSS) [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JKXVZH
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 19, 2008
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    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    The General Social Survey (GSS) conducts basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society with a data-collection program designed to both monitor social change within the United States and to compare the United States to other nations. The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remain unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.

  9. GSS DATA

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    Updated Mar 27, 2024
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    Francesca Phanius (2024). GSS DATA [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/francescaphanius/gss-data
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    Dataset updated
    Mar 27, 2024
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    Francesca Phanius
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    Dataset

    This dataset was created by Francesca Phanius

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  10. General social survey (GSS), living arrangements of grandparents aged 45...

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    Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2007). General social survey (GSS), living arrangements of grandparents aged 45 years and over, by sex and age group (x 1,000) [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.25318/3910000601-eng
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    Jan 18, 2007
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    Area covered
    Canada
    Description

    General social survey (GSS), living arrangements of grandparents aged 45 years and over, by sex and age group.

  11. t

    General Social Survey Panel Data (2016-2020)

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    The Association of Religion Data Archives, General Social Survey Panel Data (2016-2020) [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/HACZV
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    Description

    The General Social Surveys (GSS) have been conducted by the "https://www.norc.org/Pages/default.aspx" Target="_blank">National Opinion Research Center (NORC) annually since 1972, except for the years 1979, 1981, and 1992 (a supplement was added in 1992), and biennially beginning in 1994. The GSS are designed to be part of a program of social indicator research, replicating questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. The 2016-2020 GSS consisted of re-interviews of respondents from the 2016 and 2018 Cross-Sectional GSS rounds. All respondents from 2018 were fielded, but a random subsample of the respondents from 2016 were released for the 2020 panel. Cross-sectional responses from 2016 and 2018 are labelled Waves 1A and 1B, respectively, while responses from the 2020 re-interviews are labelled Wave 2.

    The 2016-2020 GSS Wave 2 Panel also includes a collaboration between the General Social Survey (GSS) and the "https://electionstudies.org/" Target="_blank">American National Election Studies (ANES). The 2016-2020 GSS Panel Wave 2 contained a module of items proposed by the ANES team, including attitudinal questions, feelings thermometers for presidential candidates, and plans for voting in the 2020 presidential election. These respondents appear in both the ANES post-election study and the 2016-2020 GSS panel, with their 2020 GSS responses serving as their equivalent pre-election data. Researchers can link the relevant GSS Panel Wave 2 data with ANES post-election data using either ANESID (in the GSS Panel Wave 2 datafile) or V200001 in the ANES 2020 post-election datafile.

  12. h

    gss-preference

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    Tensorplex Labs (2025). gss-preference [Dataset]. https://huggingface.co/datasets/tensorplex-labs/gss-preference
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    Aug 11, 2025
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    Tensorplex Labs
    Description

    tensorplex-labs/gss-preference dataset hosted on Hugging Face and contributed by the HF Datasets community

  13. d

    Data from: The Crime Scene: Justice Data and the Case of Multiple Files in...

    • dataone.org
    Updated Dec 28, 2023
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    Chuck Humphrey (2023). The Crime Scene: Justice Data and the Case of Multiple Files in GSS 18 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/P8TSNV
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    Dec 28, 2023
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    Chuck Humphrey
    Description

    We have all agreed that it is important for us to know how data are used and to increase our confidence with data documentation, statistical packages, and different (complex) data products. The vote this year? General Social Survey (GSS) data with multiple files!

  14. GSS Contractor Performance

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    Updated May 6, 2025
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    Federal Acquisition Service (2025). GSS Contractor Performance [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gss-contractor-performance
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    May 6, 2025
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    General Services Administrationhttp://www.gsa.gov/
    Description

    This dashboard provides insight into the shipping, tracking, delivery, transition to EDI/Contractor Portal etc. from Fax contractors etc.

  15. g

    General social survey (GSS), family structure, by region, inactive |...

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    General social survey (GSS), family structure, by region, inactive | gimi9.com [Dataset]. https://gimi9.com/dataset/ca_85eb895e-6c61-48e4-ad8e-40b9570f8377
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    General social survey (GSS), family structure, by region.

  16. B

    General Social Survey, 2020 [Canada]: Cycle 35, Social Identity

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    Updated Oct 13, 2023
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    Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division (2023). General Social Survey, 2020 [Canada]: Cycle 35, Social Identity [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/1LFX0F
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    Oct 13, 2023
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    Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division
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    https://borealisdata.ca/api/datasets/:persistentId/versions/1.0/customlicense?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP3/1LFX0Fhttps://borealisdata.ca/api/datasets/:persistentId/versions/1.0/customlicense?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP3/1LFX0F

    Area covered
    Canada
    Description

    The 2020 GSS on Social Identity interviewed individuals 15 years and over in Canada's ten provinces and was conducted from August 2020 to February 2021. The interviews were conducted via self-assisted electronic questionnaire (respondent EQ, or rEQ) and by telephone via interviewer-assisted electronic questionnaire (interviewer EQ, or iEQ, formerly known as Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)). Data are subject to both sampling and non-sampling errors. These topics are discussed in detail in this guide. The 2020 SI survey is the fourth cycle of the GSS to collect data on social identity, social engagement, and social networks. The previous iteration of the survey (Cycle 27 - Social Identity) was collected in 2013, the second was Cycle 22 - Social Networks in 2008, and the first was Cycle 17 - Social Engagement in 2003.

  17. General Social Survey, 2021

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    The Association of Religion Data Archives, General Social Survey, 2021 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YGTZD
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    Dataset funded by
    National Science Foundation
    Description

    The General Social Surveys (GSS) have been conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) annually since 1972, except for the years 1979, 1981, and 1992 (a supplement was added in 1992), and biennially beginning in 1994. The GSS are designed to be part of a program of social indicator research, replicating questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. This data file has all cases and variables asked on the 2021 GSS.

    The 2021 cross-sectional General Social Survey has been updated to Release Version 3 as of July 2023. This Release includes the addition of respondent spouse/partner religious identities, socioeconomic statuses, and work information (including Occupation and Industry coding), and additional information about respondents' religious background.

    To download syntax files for the GSS that reproduce well-known religious group recodes, including RELTRAD, please visit the "/research/syntax-repository-list" Target="_blank">ARDA's Syntax Repository.

  18. Cumualtive GSS debt issued in the U.S. 2023, by type

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    Updated Jun 30, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Cumualtive GSS debt issued in the U.S. 2023, by type [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293494/gss-debt-issued-usa/
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    Jun 30, 2025
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    As of 2023, the United States issued green, sustainable, and social (GSS) debt worth a total of over *** billion U.S. dollars. Green debt issuance had the highest value, amounting to approximately *** billion U.S. dollars. By contrast, sustainabilty debt issuance had the lowest value, with ** billion U.S. dollars.

  19. a

    gss

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    Alliance of Genome Resources (2025). gss [Dataset]. http://identifiers.org/Xenbase:XB-GENE-976512
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 2, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    glutathione synthetase Predicted to enable glutathione binding activity and glutathione synthase activity. Predicted to act upstream of or within glutathione biosynthetic process. Predicted to be active in cytosol. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Alzheimer's disease; congenital nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia 6; glutathione synthetase deficiency; and glutatione synthetase deficiency with 5-oxoprolinuria. Orthologous to human GSS (glutathione synthetase). Glutathione synthetase https://www.xenbase.org/gene/showgene.do?method=display&geneId=976511

  20. General Social Survey, 1972-2012 [Cumulative File]

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    Smith, Tom W.; Hout, Michael; Marsden, Peter V. (2013). General Social Survey, 1972-2012 [Cumulative File] [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34802.v1
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    ascii, spss, delimited, stata, r, sasAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Sep 11, 2013
    Dataset provided by
    Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Researchhttps://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/
    Authors
    Smith, Tom W.; Hout, Michael; Marsden, Peter V.
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    https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/34802/termshttps://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/34802/terms

    Time period covered
    1972 - 2012
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    The General Social Surveys (GSS) were designed as part of a data diffusion project in 1972. The GSS replicated questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. The latest survey, GSS 2012, includes a cumulative file that merges all 29 General Social Surveys into a single file containing data from 1972 to 2012. The items appearing in the surveys are one of three types: Permanent questions that occur on each survey, rotating questions that appear on two out of every three surveys (1973, 1974, and 1976, or 1973, 1975, and 1976), and a few occasional questions such as split ballot experiments that occur in a single survey. The 2012 surveys included seven topic modules: Jewish identity, generosity, workplace violence, science, skin tone, and modules for experimental and miscellaneous questions. The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) module included in the 2012 survey was gender. The data also contain several variables describing the demographic characteristics of the respondents.

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General Social Survey (GSS)

Monitor trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes

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Dataset updated
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Mustafa Adel Ibrahim
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Description

INTRODUCTION. GSS has run annually since 1972; it surveys a representative sample of the adult population in the American society; It is widely used by politicians, policy makers, and researchers. in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes. and asks questions about standard core of demographics, beliefs about social and political issues, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Among the topics covered are civil liberties, crime and violence, intergroup tolerance, morality, national spending priorities, psychological well-being, social ‎mobility, and stress and traumatic events. Altogether the GSS is the single best source for sociological and attitudinal trend data covering the United States. It allows researchers to examine the structure and functioning of society in general as well as the role played by relevant subgroups and to compare the United States to other nations. Source http://gss.norc.org/About-The-GSS About the Data The survey is conducted face-to-face with an in-person interview by National Opinion ‎Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. However, participation in the study is strictly voluntary. Therefore, study based on the GSS sample data is: • generalizable to the target population if we ignore the non-response bias; • definitely not causal, because the study does not employ random assignments and is only observational.

Research Question As for the research question, I'm interested in exploring the relationship between people's job preference and their education status, using latest data. More specifically, are people's preference in a job (like job security, high income, short working hours etc.) associated with their highest degree received? Motivation: Aside from sleeping, working is the activity that takes away the most of our lifetime hours and has a huge impact on people's well-being and happiness. I would be really interested in the factors that determines peoples' attitude toward job.

Reading the data. The data we’ll use is from the General Social Survey (GSS). Using the GSS Data Explorer, I selected a subset of the variables in the GSS and made it available along with this notebook. The survey contains more that 5000 of variables with data on a wide range of subjects, I have selected just a few.

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