Package 'gssr'

Description

A tibble containing the General Social Survey Cumulative Data file.

Usage

data(gss_all)

Format

An object of class tibble with 75,699 rows and 6,942 columns. Variables are encoded as labelled vectors. The GSS Codebook is the authoritative source for the variables in this dataset. It is available at http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation. Summary information is available in gss_doc, a tibble supplied with this package.

Details

This is Release 3 of the 1972-2024 GSS cumulative data file. See the release notes and documentation from NORC. for further details.

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Description

Use gss_get_yr() to get GSS data for a single year from NORC's GSS website (where it is available as a zipped Stata file) and put it directly into a tibble.

Usage

gss_get_yr(
  year = 2024,
  url = "https://gss.norc.org/documents/stata/",
  fname = "_stata",
  ext = "zip",
  dest = "data-raw/",
  save_file = c("n", "y")
)

Arguments

Value

A tibble with the requested year's GSS data.

Examples

gss80 <- gss_get_yr(1980)

Description

A tibble containing the General Social Survey 2006 Three Wave Panel Data File, in long format.

Usage

data(gss_panel06_long)

Format

A tibble with 6,000 rows and 1,572 columns. Variables are encoded as numerics or factors. The GSS Codebook is the authoritative source for the variables in this dataset. It is available at http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation. Summary information is available in gss_panel_doc, a tibble supplied with this package. Respondent ids are contained in the variable firstid (from the GSS ⁠id\_1⁠ variable). Survey waves (years 2006, 2008, 2010) are contained in the wave variable as 1, 2, and 3. See also the gss_panel_doc object in this package.

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Description

A tibble containing the General Social Survey 2008 Three Wave Panel Data File, in long format.

Usage

data(gss_panel08_long)

Format

A tibble with 6,069 rows and 1,243 columns. Variables are encoded as as numerics or factors. The GSS Codebook is the authoritative source for the variables in this dataset. It is available at http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation. Summary information is available in gss_panel_doc, a tibble supplied with this package. Respondent ids are contained in the variable firstid (from the GSS id_1 variable). Survey waves (years 2008, 2010, 2012) are indicated by the wave variable as 1, 2, and 3. See also the gss_panel_doc object in this package.

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Description

A tibble containing the General Social Survey 2010 Three Wave Panel Data File, in long format.

Usage

data(gss_panel10_long)

Format

A tibble with 6,132 rows and 1,191 columns. Variables are encoded as as numerics or factors. The GSS Codebook is the authoritative source for the variables in this dataset. It is available at http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation. Summary information is available in gss_panel_doc, a tibble supplied with this package. Respondent ids are contained in the variable firstid (from the GSS id_1 variable). Survey waves (years 2010, 2012, 2014) are indicated by the wave variable as 1, 2, and 3. See also the gss_panel_doc object in this package.

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Description

A tibble containing the General Social Survey 2020 Panel Data File, in wide format.

Usage

data(gss_panel20)

Format

A tibble with 5,215 rows and 4,296 columns. Variables are encoded as labelled vectors. The GSS Codebook is the authoritative source for the variables in this dataset. It is available at http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 the conducted the GSS was conducted as two studies: (1) a panel re-interview of past respondents from the 2016 and 2018 cross sectional GSS studies (referred to as the 2016-2020 GSS Panel), and (2) an independent fresh cross-sectional address-based sampling push to web study (referred to as 2020 cross-sectional survey). This data object is for the first study; namely, the study empaneling former 2016 and 2018 GSS respondents to answer a GSS questionnaire in 2020 (i.e., the 2016-2020 GSS panel).

This data focuses on Wave 2 of the 2016-2020 GSS Panel – i.e. the panel reinterviews with 2018 GSS
respondents and a randomly selected subset of 2016 GSS respondents. The GSS has used a panel format
previously, as parts of the 2006-2014 GSS. In the 2016-2020 GSS Panel, variables only
contain data from one of the three years. To differentiate between versions of each variable,
they have been appended with suffixes. Variables from 2016 (Wave 1a) have _1a
appended, variables from 2018 (Wave 1b) have _1b appended, and variables from 2020 (Wave 2) have _2
appended. Users can also track cases from 2016 and 2018, and reinterviews from 2020 with the variable
`samptype`.

Because of its relatively complex nature, users are strongly encouraged to consult the
official [GSS documentation for this dataset](https://gss.norc.org/Documents/codebook/2016-2020%20GSS%20Panel%20Codebook%20-%20R1a.pdf).

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Description

A tibble containing just a few variables from the GSS Cumulative Data File. See http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation for full documentation of the variables.

Usage

data(gss_sub)

Format

A tibble with 72,390 rows and 19 columns.

year

Year of the survey.

id

Respondent id.

ballot

Survey ballot

age

Age of respondent

race

Race of respondent

sex

Sex of respondent

degree

Highest level of education obtained

padeg

Father's education

padeg

Mother's education

relig

Religion (simple coding)

Polviews

Political views

fefam

Response to a statement that it is better for man to go out to work, and for a woman to tend the home

vpsu

Variance primary sampling unit

vstrat

Variance stratum

oversamp

Weights for black oversamples

formwt

Survey weight for experimental randomization

wtssall

Survey weight (1972-2018)

wtssps

Poststratification survey weight (1972-2022)

sampcode

Sampling error code

sample

Sampling frame and method

Source

National Opinion Research Center, http://gss.norc.org.

Description

See which years a particular question was asked in the GSS.

Usage

gss_which_years(data, variable, year = year)

Arguments

Details

What years was a particular question asked in the GSS?

Value

A tibble showing whether the question or questions were asked in each of the GSS years

Examples

## Not run: 
data(gss_all)
gss_all %>%
  gss_which_years(fefam)

gss_all %>%
  gss_which_years(c(industry, indus80, wrkgovt, commute))

## End(Not run)