RT Research Data
T1 General Social Survey, 1972-2016 (Cumulative File)
A1 Smith, Tom W.
A2 Hout, Michael
A2 Marsden, Peter V.
LA English
PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902793846
AB 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.
K1 Social Security
K1 Abortion
K1 Agriculture
K1 Alcohol
K1 Birth Control
K1 Business
K1 Capitalism
K1 Children
K1 Citizenship
K1 Civic Engagement
K1 Civil Rights
K1 Community Participation
K1 Compensation
K1 computer use
K1 Corporations
K1 Courts
K1 Crime
K1 Democracy
K1 Dissent
K1 Divorce
K1 Drug use
K1 economic issues
K1 Employment
K1 Environment
K1 Ethnicity
K1 Euthanasia
K1 expenditures
K1 Family
K1 foreign affairs
K1 Gender
K1 Government
K1 Health
K1 Housing
K1 Human Rights
K1 Immigration
K1 Income
K1 Industry
K1 Labor unions
K1 Marriage
K1 Media coverage
K1 Mental Health
K1 Military
K1 Occupations
K1 Parents
K1 Police
K1 Politics
K1 Poverty
K1 Prejudice
K1 Privacy
K1 Race relations
K1 racial attitudes
K1 Religion
K1 Science
K1 Sexual Behavior
K1 sexual preference
K1 Smoking
K1 social classes
K1 Social Identity
K1 Social Inequality
K1 Social Isolation
K1 social mobility
K1 Social Networks
K1 Sports
K1 Suicide
K1 Taxes
K1 Technology
K1 Television
K1 Terrorism
K1 Unemployment
K1 Wealth
K1 welfare services
K1 Work
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.3886/ICPSR36797.v1