DOCUMENT THIS SYSTEM FILE CONTAINS DATA FOR THE 1972-1991
GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS, CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL
OPINION RESEARCH CENTER.
*** IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT USERS OF THE ***
*** FILE CONSULT THE CUMULATIVE G.S.S. 1972-1991 ***
*** CODEBOOK. ***
THE LABELS IN THIS FILE ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE,
BUT ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE QUESTION WORDING AND
RESPONSE CATEGORIES AS PRESENTED IN THE CODEBOOK.
USERS SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE TREATMENT
OF MISSING DATA. THE 'MISSING VALUES' CARDS ARE
INCLUDED IN THIS FILE-CREATION PACKAGE SIMPLY AS A
CONVENIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, THE CATEGORIES
'DONT KNOW', 'NO ANSWER', AND 'NOT APPLICABLE' HAVE
BEEN DECLARED MISSING.
*** USERS ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO RE-DECLARE MISSING ***
*** VALUES WHEN ANALYZING THE DATA. ***
FOR CERTAIN VARIABLES, BLANK AND ZERO ARE BOTH VALID
CODES. TO AVOID CONFUSION, BLANKS IN THE RAW DATA
HAVE BEEN RECODED TO NEGATIVE ONE (-1) FOR THESE
VARIABLES ONLY. THE RECODE IS DONE ONLY WHERE BOTH
BLANK AND ZERO ARE VALID CODES. THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND
THAT USERS MARK IN THEIR CODEBOOKS THE VARIABLES FOR WHICH
THIS RECODE HAS BEEN MADE:
HRS1 HRS2 COMMUTE SPHRS1 SPHRS2 PARBORN GRANBORN
UNRELAT VETYEARS VETKIND DOTDATA TO PADOTPRE
POLVIEWY RUSSIA TO EGYPT MAATTEND PAATTEND SPATTEND
TITHING LIBTEMP TO JEWTEMP RACHISCH SOCREL TO SOCSIBS
MEMNUM INCNEED MININC CHLDIDEL
CHLDSOON TVHOURS RADIOHRS DIVORCE5 TO CUTSPDFG
NUMGIVEN EDUC1 TO EDUC5
SWITCH# TO SWITAGE2 CHURHSCH TVRELIG CIDEKNEW
AIDSKNOW PARTNERS
SISNUM BRONUM DAUNUM SONNUM
GRPARNUM TO RELNUM FRINUM FRIWORK FRINEIGH
LIVECOM LIVEHOME WORDA TO WORDSUM
PAYMASON TO GIVCABNT NUMKIDS SEXFREQ NUMWOMEN NUMMEN
CIDEREG CIDEREG2 CIDEREG3 AIDSREG AIDSREG2 AIDSREG3
SUIREG SUIREG2 SUIREG3 SUIKNEW SEXFREQ2
DK RDK UNDK
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*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
THIS VERSION OF THE 1972-90 CUMULATIVE GENERAL SOCIAL
SURVEY REQUIRES WEIGHTING TO ADJUST FOR THE
PLANNED OVERSAMPLING OF THE BLACK SUBPOPULATION
IN 1982 AND 1987.
A SET OF DECIMAL WEIGHTS IS PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE.
THUS WEIGHTED ANALYSES WILL BE CORRECT WHEN RUN USING
STATISTICAL PACKAGES SUCH AS SPSS THAT RELY ON THE
NUMBER OF CASES FOR CALCULATING TESTS OF STATISTICAL
SIGNIFICANCE.
THERE ARE THREE CASES WHERE THE USE OF THE WEIGHTS IS
APPROPRIATE:
1. THE USER WANTS TO POOL ALL SUBFILES FOR
SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS, E.G., RUN SUBFILES ALL
2. THE USER WANTS TO POOL BOTH THE 1982 (1987) SUBFILES, Y82 (Y87) AND Y82B (Y87B), THE TRADITIONAL
CROSS-SECTIONAL SUBFILE AND THE BLACK OVERSAMPLE
SUBFILE.
3. THE USER WANTS TO ANALYZE ONLY BLACKS FROM
THE POOLED 1972-1991 SAMPLE.
IN THESE THREE SITUATIONS IT IS NECESSARY TO WEIGHT
THE DATA BY THE VARIABLE OVERSAMP.
IF THE USER IS ANALYZING ONLY BLACKS FROM THE Y82 (Y87) AND
Y82B (Y82B) SUBFILES, THE USE OF THE WEIGHT IS NOT NECESSARY.
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* NOTE THAT THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE. USERS DOING *
* INTENSIVE ANALYSIS SHOULD CONSIDER SAVING AN ADDITIONAL *
* FILE CONTAINING ONLY THE CASES AND VARIABLES NEEDED. *
(Entered 24 JAN 92)