General Social Surveys, 1972-2006 [Cumulative File]

Headings for Sequential Variable List

• CASE IDENTIFICATION AND YEAR
• RESPONDENT BACKGROUND VARIABLES
  • Age, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
  • Education
  • Military Service
  • Respondent and Spouse Work Week
  • Respondent's Dwelling
  • Word Association
  • R's Activities
  • Religious Attendance and Identity
  • Respondent's Household Composition
  • Socio-Economic and Status Indicators
  • Other Respondent Background Variables
• PERSONAL AND FAMILY INFORMATION
  • Respondent's Employment
  • Marital Status
  • Spouse's Employment
  • Father's Employment
  • Mother's Employment
  • Family Composition
  • Respondent's Background and Childhood
  • Respondent's Current Household Composition
  • Income
  • Demographic Variables
  • Respondent's Occupational Indices (Dot Codes)
  • Spouse's Occupational Indices
  • Father's Occupational Indices
  • Voting Patterns
• ATTITUDINAL MEASURES - NATIONAL PROBLEMS
  • Social Problem Spending (variant 1)
  • Social Problem Spending (variant 2)
  • Social Problem Spending (variant 3)
  • Economic Equality
  • Class Structure
  • Social Welfare and Taxation
  • Free Speech
  • Capital Punishment
  • Gun Control
  • Crime and Law Enforcement
  • International Affairs
• PERSONAL CONCERNS
  • Religion
  • Human Nature
  • Feeling Thermometers
  • More Religion
  • Race Issues
  • Alienation Measures
  • Health and Happiness
  • Human Nature Part Two
  • Personal Satisfaction
• SOCIETAL CONCERNS
  • Confidence in Institutions
  • Desirable Qualities for Children
  • Social Behavior
  • Substance Consumption
  • Social Anomie
• WORKPLACE AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS
  • Job Security and Satisfaction
  • Class and Financial Needs
  • Job Supervision
  • Standard of Living
• CONTROVERSIAL SOCIAL ISSUES
  • Gender Issues
  • Abortion
  • Family Planning, Sex, and Contraception
  • Pornography
  • Child Discipline
  • Suicide
  • Activism
  • Violent Experiences
  • Media Exposure
  • Interviewer Observations
  • Experimental Variables
  • Abortion Part Two
  • Working Mothers
  • Women's Rights
  • Race Part Two
  • How Often Think About Topics
  • Recent Traumatic Events
  • Social Issues Scales
  • Important Life Aspects
  • Personal Concerns
• MILITARY ISSUES
  • National Service and the Military
  • Women in the Armed Forces
  • The Draft
  • Assorted Military Issues
  • Likelyhood of Military Situations
  • Military Related Employment
• OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Civic Obligations
  • Government Responsibility
• 1985 TOPICAL MODULE: SOCIAL NETWORKS
  • Closeness within Networks
  • Composition of Networks
  • Frequency and Duration of Contact within Networks
  • Social Attributes of Those in Networks
• 1987 TOPICAL MODULE: SOCIO-POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
  • Group Membership
  • Groups Solving Problems
  • Active in Groups
  • Types of Activities in Groups
  • Involvement with Local Government and Community
  • Political Involvement
  • Knowledge of Political Figures
  • Political Trust and Participation
  • Group Political Influence
• 1988 TOPICAL MODULE: RELIGION
  • Opinions on Science
  • Switching Religions
  • Religious Backgrounds of Parents
  • Religious Upbringing
  • Adult Religious Participation
  • Religious Beliefs
  • Important Factors in Life Decisions
  • What Makes One Good
  • Faith
  • Friends and Religion
  • Friends and Race
  • Religious Expression and Funding
• 1990 MODULE: INTER-GROUP RELATIONS
  • Protest and Dissent
  • Causes of Poverty
  • Social Differences
  • Group Wealth
  • Group Work Ethic
  • Violent Tendencies in Groups
  • Group Intelligence
  • Group Prefer Welfare
  • Group Patriotism
  • Living with Group
  • Group Intermarriage
  • Solutions to Social Problems
  • Group Influence
  • Group Discrimination
• 1991 TOPICAL MODULE: WORK ORGANIZATIONS
  • Genetic Screening
  • Corporations and Unions
  • Organizational Changes
  • Work and Unemployment
  • How Find Present Employer
  • Tests for Employment
  • Present Job
  • Promotions
  • Job Control
  • Supervision
  • Other Job Duties
  • Spending Decisions
  • Performance Evaluations
  • Role within Organization
  • Pay and Raises
  • Fringe Benefits
  • Employees and Management
  • Sources of Job Skills
  • Work Space
• 1993 ISSP MODULE: CULTURE
  • Individualism
  • Life Determinants
  • Musical Preferences
  • Leisure and Recreational Activities
  • Television Viewing Patterns
  • Evaluating the Arts
  • Qualities Look for in Friends
  • Qualities of Personal Importance
  • Most Important Events
  • Majors and Favorite School Subjects
• 1994 FAMILY MOBILITY MODULE
  • Parental Information
  • Educational and Occupational History
  • Reasoning Abilities
  • Spousal Information
  • Respondent's Children - Gender
  • Respondent's Children - Year of Birth
  • Respondent's Children - Relationship to R
  • Respondent's Children - Still Alive
  • Respondent's Children - Education
  • Selected Child's Employment
  • Sibling Information - Gender
  • Siblings - Year of Birth
  • Siblings - Relationship to R
  • Siblings - Still Alive
  • Selected Sibling - Education and Employment
• 1994 MULTICULTURALISM MODULE
  • Identification: American or Ethnic Group
  • Cultural Assimilation and Separatism
  • Bilingual Issues
  • Immigration
  • Affirmative Action
  • Group Attention from Government
  • Wealth and Work Ethic of Immigrants
  • Evaluation of the Economy
  • Chances of Losing Job or Promotion to Other Group
• FAMILY - FINANCES - DONATIONS
  • Romance and Happiness
  • Sharing of Work in Household
  • Balancing Work and Family
  • Roles of Men and Women in Family
  • Feeling Thermometer
  • Level of Personal Empowerment
  • Level of Anger
  • How R Dealt with Anger
  • Level of Nationalism
  • Automobile Ownership
  • Home Ownership
  • Ever Hired Lawyer
  • Purchasing Power
  • Exchange of Human Organs, Babies, Sex
  • Free Market
  • Family Business
  • Family Finances
  • Volunteer Work
  • Volunteer Work in Past Month
  • Hours of Volunteer Work
  • Contribute Money
  • Contribute How Much Money
  • Estimated Value Contributed
  • Contributed to Needy
• HOW WILLING VIGNETTE
• ATTITUDES TOWARDS MENTAL HEALTH
  • R's Mental and Physical Health
  • In What Order R Would Seek Help
  • Government Spending on Mental Illness
  • Know Anyone Hospitalized or Seeing Psychologist
  • Ever Have Breakdown or Mental Illness
• MORE NATIONAL ISSUES
  • Income and Poverty
  • Welfare Issues
  • Government Secrecy
• WEB USE QUESTIONS
  • Time Spent on Internet (summaries created)
  • Time Spent on Internet (original variables)
  • Navigation Strategies
  • Web Site Types in Last 30 Days
  • Uses of Web in Past 12 Months
  • Learning About Issues on the Web in Past 12 Months
  • Type of Political Sites Visited in Past 12 Months
  • Political Actions Because of Web
  • Find Information about Candidate for Political Office
  • Political Thinking Affected by Web
  • Arts Web Use
  • Music Web Use
  • Visual Arts Web Use
  • Literature Web Use
  • Social Web Use
  • Web Use Problem Solving
  • Web Use Information
  • Health Media Use
  • Political Media Use
  • Search Activities
  • Social Network Media Use
  • Home Computer Web Use
  • Work Computer/Web Use
  • Other Computer/Web Use
  • Email Use
• RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
• 2000 TOPICAL MODULE: MULTI-ETHNIC UNITED STATES
• 2000 TOPICAL MODULE: FREEDOM
  • Child Time/Monitor
  • House Clean
• 2000 TOPICAL MODULE: HEALTH STATUS
• 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: PREJUDICE
• 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: DOCTORS AND PATIENTS
• 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE
• 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION
• 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: ALTRUISM
• 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: ADULT TRANSITIONS
• 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: MENTAL HEALTH
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: WORK ENVIRONMENT
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: IMMIGRATION
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: GENES
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: ALTRUISTIC LOVE
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: GUNS
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: DAILY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: CATHOLICS
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: ALCOHOL
• 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIAL NETWORKS
• 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: SCIENCE
• 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: SHARED CAPITALISM
• 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: MENTAL HEALTH II
• 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: NUMBER KNOWN
• 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: GUN CONTROL
• 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: DISABLED
• 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: MENTAL HEALTH I
• 2004 ISSP MODULE: NATIONAL IDENTITY
• 2004 ISSP MODULE: CITIZENSHIP
• 2006 GSS VARIABLES
• 1985-1990 ISSP MODULE - PRESS FREEDOM VS GOVERNMENT SECURITY
  • 1990 Module - Protest
  • Freedom of Speech
  • Police Powers
  • Economic Inequality
  • Importance of Educational Subjects
  • Government Education Assistance
  • Public Authorities' Role in Child Raising
  • Legal Issues
  • Public Influence on Government
  • Government and the Economy
  • Government Spending Levels
  • Taxes
  • Power and Priorities
  • Government's Role in Industries
  • Government Responsibilty
  • Feeling for Political Groups
  • Public Influence on Government (2)
• 1986 ISSP MODULE: SOCIAL SUPPORT AND NETWORKS
  • Contact with Parents
  • Contact with Siblings
  • Contact with Children
  • Other Relatives - Information and Contacts
  • Contact with Friends
  • Who Turn to for Help
  • How Long in Home and Community
• 1987 ISSP MODULE: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
  • Factors for Getting Ahead in Life
  • Need for Inequality
  • Guessing Job Pay
  • How Much Jobs Should Pay
  • Economic Inequality and the Role of Government
  • Class Tax Levels
  • Class Conflict
  • Occupational Mobility
• 1988 ISSP MODULE: WOMEN AND WORK
  • Working Women and the Family
  • When Should Women Work Outside Home
  • Child Care Arrangements
  • Marriage and Child Bearing
  • Family Size
  • Having Children
  • Divorce
  • Work History - Married Women with Children
  • Work and the Family
  • Family Issues
  • Sexual Issues
  • Household Money and Chore Management
  • Spouse Work Outside Home
• 1989 ISSP MODULE: WORK ORIENTATION
  • How Change Time Spent
  • Attitude Towards Work
  • Important Job Pay Factors
  • Workers and Management
  • Important Aspects of Job
  • Worst Aspects of Unemployment
  • Job Preferences
  • Other Work Issues
  • More Job Pay Factors
  • Evaluation of Own Work Situation
  • Workplace Relations
  • Supervision
  • Other Jobs
  • Job Sites
  • Employ Others
• 1991 ISSP MODULE: RELIGION
  • Personal Values
  • Abortion
  • Cheating on Benefits and Taxes
  • Confidence in Institutions
  • Influence of Religion in Government
  • Religious Beliefs
  • Parent's Religion
  • Own Religious Upbringing & Spouse's Religion
  • Childhood and Current Religious Participation
  • Religion's Role in Society
• 1993 ISSP MODULE: ENVIRONMENT
  • National Priorities
  • The Role of Science
  • Environmental Values
  • Willingness to Protect the Environment
  • Science Knowledge Tests
  • Environmental Dangers
  • Government Environmental Involvement
  • Personal Behavior to Help Environment
• PERSONAL IMPACT OF PUBLIC CONCERNS
  • Closeness of R to Place Living
  • What is an American
  • How Proud of America
  • Foreign Relations and Immigration
  • Civil Rights
  • Homicide Victims
  • AIDS Victims
  • Suicide Victims
  • Anti AIDS-Spread Measures
  • Sexual Partners and Behavior
  • Genetic Screening
  • HIV Test
  • Parenting
  • Adult Roles in Children's Lives
  • Change in Children's Quality of Life
  • Influences on Children
  • Government Social Spending
• RECENT PROBLEMS FOR RESPONDENT
  • Important Household Problems
  • Health Problems
  • Work Related Problems
  • Financial Problems
  • Personal Hardships
  • Family Relationship Problems
  • Crime and Legal Problems
  • Problems Where Live
  • Other Problems
• SURVEY ADMINISTRATIVE VARIABLES
  • Language
  • Version
  • Sampling
  • Weights