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 

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