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