README file General Social Survey (GSS), 1972-2012 Author: National Opinion Research Center [NORC] ICPSR Study Number: EDS Study Number: 1051 in data subdirectory: gss1972-2012.dta 359,503,815 bytes Stata Dataset* gss1972-2012.por 688,655,844 bytes Spss Portable File each has 57,061 cases and 5,548 variables *SPSS portable files was downloaded from Roper on July 22, 2013 The Stata .dta file was created from the .por file using StatTransfer Files for the individual survey years are also available in both .dta and .por formats survey year record count gss72 1613 gss73 1504 gss74 1484 gss75 1490 gss76 1499 gss77 1530 gss78 1532 gss80 1468 gss82 1860 gss83 1599 gss84 1473 gss85 1534 gss86 1470 gss87 1819 gss88 1481 gss89 1537 gss90 1372 gss91 1517 gss93 1606 gss94 2992 gss96 2904 gss98 2832 gss00 2817 gss02 2765 gss04 2812 gss06 4510 gss08 2023 gss10 2044 gss12 1974 in doc subdirectory: [no documentation currently online] in program subdirectory: [no programs currently online]