GSS 1972-2021 Cumulative Datafile
Headings for Sequential Variable List
- CASE IDENTIFICATION AND YEAR
- RESPONDENT BACKGROUND VARIABLES
- Age, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
- Education
- Happiness of Relationship with Partner
- Convicted of Crime, Jail/Prison
- Military Service
- Respondent and Spouse Work Week
- Respondent's Dwelling
- Word Association
- R's Activities
- Religious Attendance and Identity
- 2012 Core: Jewish Identity
- Respondent's Household Composition
- Socio-Economic and Status Indicators
- Other Respondent Background Variables
- PERSONAL AND FAMILY INFORMATION
- Marital Status
- Respondent's Employment
- 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: 1968-2012
- ATTITUDINAL MEASURES - NATIONAL PROBLEMS
- PERSONAL CONCERNS
- SOCIETAL CONCERNS
- WORKPLACE AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS
- 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
- MORE NATIONAL ISSUES
- MILITARY ISSUES
- OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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
- 1985 TOPICAL MODULE: SOCIAL NETWORKS
- 1987 TOPICAL MODULE: SOCIO-POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
- 1988 TOPICAL MODULE: RELIGION
- 1990 TOPICAL MODULE: INTER-GROUP RELATIONS
- 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 TOPICAL MODULE: CULTURE
- 1994 TOPICAL MODULE: FAMILY MOBILITY
- 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
- Spouse's Father
- Sibling
- 1994 TOPICAL MODULE: MULTICULTURALISM
- 1996 TOPICAL MODULE: GENDER
- 1996 TOPICAL MODULE: EMOTIONS
- 1996 TOPICAL MODULE: MARKETS
- 1996 TOPICAL MODULE: GIVING AND VOLUNTERING
- 1996 TOPICAL MODULE: MENTAL HEALTH I
- 1998 TOPICAL MODULE: RELIGION AND CULTURE
- 1998 TOPICAL MODULE: JOBS
- 1998 TOPICAL MODULE: MENTAL HEALTH II
- 2000 TOPICAL MODULE: MULTI-ETHNIC UNITED STATES
- 2000 TOPICAL MODULE: INFORMATION SOCIETY
- Time Spent on Internet
- 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
- 2000 TOPICAL MODULE: FREEDOM
- 2000 TOPICAL MODULE: HEALTH STATUS
- 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: PREJUDICE
- 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: DOCTORS AND PATIENTS
- 2002-2014 TOPICAL MODULE: QUALITY OF WORKLIFE
- 2002-2018 TOPICAL MODULE: EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION
- 2002-2014 TOPICAL MODULE: ALTRUISM
- 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: ADULT TRANSITIONS
- 2002 TOPICAL MODULE: CHILD STIGMA
- 2004/2012 TOPICAL MODULE: WORKPLACE CONFLICT
- 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: IMMIGRATION
- 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: GENES AND ENVIRONMENT
- 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: ALTRUISTIC LOVE
- 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: GUNS
- 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: SPIRITUALITY
- 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: WOMEN AND ALCOHOL
- 2004 TOPICAL MODULE: VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIAL NETWORKS
- 2006-2014 TOPICAL MODULE: SCIENCE
- 2006-2014 TOPICAL MODULE: SHARED CAPITALISM
- 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: MENTAL HEALTH III
- 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: NUMBER KNOWN
- 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: GUN CONTROL
- 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: BOARDS/TRENDS
- 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: DISABLED
- 2006 TOPICAL MODULE: MENTAL HEALTH IV
- 2008 TOPICAL MODULE: SELF EMPLOYMENT
- 2008 TOPICAL MODULE: JEWISH IDENTITY
- 2008 TOPICAL MODULE: TERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
- 2008 TOPICAL MODULE: GLOBAL ECONOMICS
- 2008,2012 TOPICAL MODULE: SEXUAL ORIENTATION
- 2008 TOPICAL MODULE: CLERGY/SEX
- 2014 TOPICAL MODULE: WORK AND RELATIONSHIPS
- 2014 TOPICAL MODULE: HIGH RISK BEHAVIORS
- 1985-2016 ISSP MODULE: ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
- Newspaper Allowed to Publish Government Secrets
- 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)
- 2006 Additions
- 2012 Additions
- 2016 Additions
- 1986 ISSP MODULE: SOCIAL SUPPORT AND NETWORKS
- 1987 ISSP MODULE: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
- 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
- 1989-2015 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
- 2006 Additions
- 1991 ISSP MODULE: RELIGION
- 1993-2010 ISSP MODULE: ENVIRONMENT
- 2004-2014 ISSP MODULE: NATIONAL IDENTITY
- 2004-2014 ISSP MODULE: CITIZENSHIP
- 2012 ISSP MODULE: GENDER
- VARIABLES ADDED IN 2016
- VARIABLES ADDED IN 2018
- Vote 2016
- Trust
- Job Satisfaction
- Randomization Variable Form X
- Consent to Possible Data Linkage
- Spouse Supervise Anyone
- Should Do First
- Personal Relationships with Mental Health Issues
- Prediction About Future
- Harassment
- General Health
- Health Problems
- Abortion
- Experience of Nature
- Belief about Nature
- Pets
- Work
- Knows Someone Mental Health Diagnosis
- Person R Acquainted With
- Inequality
- Leisure
- Social Networks
- Feelings
- Confidence
- Family Pressure
- Sociability/Social Networks
- General Health
- Feelings
- Income
- Language
- Religion
- Gender
- Genetic Testing
- Race
- Citizenship
- Dwelling
- VARIABLES ADDED IN 2021
- Gender
- Race
- Employment
- Parent's Born in this Country
- Father/Mother Employment
- Government Policies
- Trust in Institutions
- Climate Change
- Nature and Environment
- Travel
- Eat Meat
- Home and Neighborhood
- Income Inequality, Immigration and Class
- Pain
- Religion
- Business and Government Policies
- HIV
- Sexual Partners
- Police and Race
- Confidence in Pharmaceutical Companies
- Confidence in Federal Government
- Free Speech
- Police
- Experiments
- SURVEY ADMINISTRATIVE VARIABLES