GSS 1972-2024 Cumulative Datafile - Release 3

Ballot Administered.

Version Administered.

Status on International Social Survey Program Self-Completion 
Supplement.

Case recovered

SAMPLING ERROR CODE.

The GSS has employed various sampling procedures and frames. Appendix 
A gives full detail.

Subsampling: two-phase design.

Stratum variable for SDA to calculate complex standard errors
for the GSS dataset.

See the document in the online SDA codebook that describes how
it was constructed.

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Created by RECODE version 4.1.6
on May 15, 2026  (Fri 01:44 PM PDT)

Input1:  sample   label: sampling frame and method
Input2:  year   label: gss year for this respondent
         From study: /data/gss24rel3

  Output      Input1      Input2
      11          **        2021
      12          **        2022
       1           1           *
       2           2           *
       3         3-4           *
       5           5           *
       6         6-7           *
       8           8           *
       9           9           *
      10          10           *
      13          13           *

All other combinations of input variables
were converted to MD: 0

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Created by COMPUTE version 4.1.6 
on May 15, 2026  (Fri 01:44 PM PDT)

if (year eq 1972) sdaclusters = duniform(1001,1016)
else if (year eq 2021) sdaclusters = duniform(1021,1060)
else if (year eq 2022) sdaclusters = duniform(1071,1105)
else sdaclusters = sampcode

Input variables:

sampcode: sampling error code

year: gss year for this respondent
From study: /sda/data/gss24rel3

Other specified options:
Missing data values were included in computations
Output variable values were rounded to user-specified decimal places: 0
User specified seed value: 2468

Variance primary sampling unit

Variance stratum

Composite weight for SDA version of the GSS.
See the document in the online SDA codebook that describes how it was constructed.
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Created by COMPUTE version 4.1.6 
on May 15, 2026  (Fri 01:44 PM PDT)

if (year lt 2004) $wt = wtssps
else $wt = wtssnrps
endif
compwt = $wt * (75699/75700.601)

Input variables:


wtssnrps: person post-stratification weight, nonrespondents adjusted

wtssps: person post-stratification weight

year: gss year for this respondent
From study: /sda/data/gss24rel3

Other specified options:
Output variable values were rounded to user-specified decimal places: 4

Person post-stratification weight, nonrespondents adjusted

Weight of variables.

Weight of variables.

Weight of variables.

Weight for Black oversamples.

Weight for form variables.

Person post-stratification weight

Person weight for years 2002, 2010, 2012, 2016, and 2018 due to an 
assignment error of ballot and form for these years. For more 
information please see Methodological Report #134 at 
https://gss.norc.org/us/en/gss/get-documentation/methodological-reports.html.

Non-response person weight for years 2002, 2010, 2012, 2016, and 2018 
due to an assignment error of ballot and form for these years. For 
more information please see Methodological Report #134 at 
https://gss.norc.org/us/en/gss/get-documentation/methodological-reports.html.

A. R did ISSP Module

B. R did Sex Module

C. R did Gene Module

No question asked; assigned administratively

Was a respondent incentive or fee used as part of getting this case?

How long was interview

A. Age of interviewer

How difficult was case to get?

B. Race/ethnicity of interviewer

Interview done in-person or over the phone

C. Sex of interviewer

Amount of Fees Paid

D. Years of service as an interviewer at NORC

PARTICIPATION/RECORDING CONSENT