A sample of categorical variables from the General Social survey

A sample of categorical variables from the General Social survey

gss_cat

Format

year

year of survey, 2000--2014

age

age. Maximum age truncated to 89.

marital

marital status

race

race

rincome

reported income

partyid

party affiliation

relig

religion

denom

denomination

tvhours

hours per day watching tv

Source

Downloaded from https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/.

Examples

gss_cat
#> # A tibble: 21,483 x 9
#>     year marital     age race  rincome    partyid     relig     denom    tvhours
#>    <int> <fct>     <int> <fct> <fct>      <fct>       <fct>     <fct>      <int>
#>  1  2000 Never ma…    26 White $8000 to … Ind,near r… Protesta… Souther…      12
#>  2  2000 Divorced     48 White $8000 to … Not str re… Protesta… Baptist…      NA
#>  3  2000 Widowed      67 White Not appli… Independent Protesta… No deno…       2
#>  4  2000 Never ma…    39 White Not appli… Ind,near r… Orthodox… Not app…       4
#>  5  2000 Divorced     25 White Not appli… Not str de… None      Not app…       1
#>  6  2000 Married      25 White $20000 - … Strong dem… Protesta… Souther…      NA
#>  7  2000 Never ma…    36 White $25000 or… Not str re… Christian Not app…       3
#>  8  2000 Divorced     44 White $7000 to … Ind,near d… Protesta… Luthera…      NA
#>  9  2000 Married      44 White $25000 or… Not str de… Protesta… Other          0
#> 10  2000 Married      47 White $25000 or… Strong rep… Protesta… Souther…       3
#> # … with 21,473 more rows

fct_count(gss_cat$relig)
#> # A tibble: 16 x 2
#>    f                           n
#>    <fct>                   <int>
#>  1 No answer                  93
#>  2 Don't know                 15
#>  3 Inter-nondenominational   109
#>  4 Native american            23
#>  5 Christian                 689
#>  6 Orthodox-christian         95
#>  7 Moslem/islam              104
#>  8 Other eastern              32
#>  9 Hinduism                   71
#> 10 Buddhism                  147
#> 11 Other                     224
#> 12 None                     3523
#> 13 Jewish                    388
#> 14 Catholic                 5124
#> 15 Protestant              10846
#> 16 Not applicable              0
fct_count(fct_lump(gss_cat$relig))
#> # A tibble: 2 x 2
#>   f              n
#>   <fct>      <int>
#> 1 Protestant 10846
#> 2 Other      10637