General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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PARSOL Compared to your parents when they were the age you are now, do you think your own standard of living now is much better, somewhat better, about the same, somewhat worse or much worse than theirs was?   1) Much better   2) Somewhat better   3) About the same   4) Somewhat worse   5) Much worse

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Much better	495	32.2%	32.2%	-1.10
Somewhat better	433	28.2%	60.4%	-0.24
About the same	362	23.6%	84.0%	0.63
Somewhat worse	181	11.8%	95.8%	1.49
Much worse	65	4.2%	100.0%	2.36

Variable Comparisons

Age Worship attendance Political ideology Race Religion Sex

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29	30-44	45-59	60-74	75 or older	TOTAL
Much better	31.5% 84	30.2% 130	30.3% 114	34.2% 118	42.9% 48	32.3% 494
Somewhat better	35.6% 95	28.8% 124	24.2% 91	27.2% 94	23.2% 26	28.1% 430
About the same	19.9% 53	22.3% 96	25.5% 96	24.6% 85	28.6% 32	23.6% 362
Somewhat worse	10.1% 27	13.7% 59	14.9% 56	9.6% 33	4.5% 5	11.8% 180
Much worse	3.0% 8	5.1% 22	5.1% 19	4.3% 15	0.9% 1	4.2% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 267	100.0% 431	100.0% 376	100.0% 345	100.0% 112	1531

Worship attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Less than once a year	About once a year	Several times a year	One to three times a month	Nearly every week	Every week or several times a week	TOTAL
Much better	29.8% 140	27.7% 28	25.0% 49	31.7% 52	33.8% 71	43.4% 23	39.6% 131	32.4% 494
Somewhat better	27.7% 130	29.7% 30	27.0% 53	29.9% 49	31.4% 66	28.3% 15	26.0% 86	28.1% 429
About the same	24.3% 114	27.7% 28	25.5% 50	22.0% 36	21.9% 46	17.0% 9	22.7% 75	23.5% 358
Somewhat worse	14.0% 66	9.9% 10	15.3% 30	12.8% 21	9.0% 19	7.5% 4	8.8% 29	11.7% 179
Much worse	4.3% 20	5.0% 5	7.1% 14	3.7% 6	3.8% 8	3.8% 2	3.0% 10	4.3% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 470	100.0% 101	100.0% 196	100.0% 164	100.0% 210	100.0% 53	100.0% 331	1525

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
Much better	32.3% 86	29.0% 51	28.8% 158	36.2% 63	37.9% 118	32.2% 476
Somewhat better	25.2% 67	36.4% 64	30.2% 166	24.7% 43	23.5% 73	28.0% 413
About the same	26.3% 70	19.3% 34	22.8% 125	27.0% 47	23.8% 74	23.7% 350
Somewhat worse	11.7% 31	10.8% 19	14.4% 79	8.6% 15	11.3% 35	12.1% 179
Much worse	4.5% 12	4.5% 8	3.8% 21	3.4% 6	3.5% 11	3.9% 58
TOTAL	100.0% 266	100.0% 176	100.0% 549	100.0% 174	100.0% 311	1476

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
Much better	29.9% 330	35.6% 90	41.9% 75	32.2% 495
Somewhat better	27.4% 302	32.8% 83	26.8% 48	28.2% 433
About the same	26.2% 289	15.0% 38	19.6% 35	23.6% 362
Somewhat worse	12.2% 135	11.1% 28	10.1% 18	11.8% 181
Much worse	4.3% 48	5.5% 14	1.7% 3	4.2% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 1104	100.0% 253	100.0% 179	1536

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
Much better	32.1% 242	36.3% 114	46.2% 12	29.1% 105	28.6% 20	32.3% 493
Somewhat better	27.2% 205	28.7% 90	23.1% 6	29.4% 106	28.6% 20	28.0% 427
About the same	24.7% 186	20.4% 64	26.9% 7	23.5% 85	24.3% 17	23.6% 359
Somewhat worse	11.6% 87	10.5% 33	3.8% 1	13.6% 49	14.3% 10	11.8% 180
Much worse	4.4% 33	4.1% 13	0.0% 0	4.4% 16	4.3% 3	4.3% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 753	100.0% 314	100.0% 26	100.0% 361	100.0% 70	1524

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Much better	32.7% 229	31.8% 266	32.2% 495
Somewhat better	29.7% 208	26.9% 225	28.2% 433
About the same	22.7% 159	24.3% 203	23.6% 362
Somewhat worse	11.7% 82	11.8% 99	11.8% 181
Much worse	3.1% 22	5.1% 43	4.2% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 700	100.0% 836	1536