The parental families of Americans in birth cohorts 1890?1955: A categorical, linear equation model estimated from the NORC general social survey

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Linear Equation ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Social Survey

PUFF, PUFF, PASS

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jason P. Smith ◽  
David M. Merolla
Keyword(s):  
General Social Survey ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Flowering Plant ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Medical Cannabis ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This research aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between racial prejudice and White Americans’ views on cannabis legalization. The recent legalization of recreational cannabis in a handful of states, along with many other states legalizing medical cannabis in recent years, has catapulted the flowering plant back into the spotlight and nightly news cycles. Given the historically racist propaganda used to criminalize the plant, it follows that Whites’ support for legalization may be associated with racial prejudice. Using data from the General Social Survey data from 1972–2018, we find that different forms of racial prejudice have a negative effect on Whites’ support for cannabis legalization generally. Additionally, as the negative effect of overt, old-fashioned racism diminishes over time and across birth cohorts it is supplanted by the more subtle laissez-faire racism. In conclusion, we discuss the implication of the relationship between racial prejudice and views on marijuana for the increasingly complicated racial dynamics surrounding cannabis legalization.

Tracking US Social Change Over a Half-Century: The General Social Survey at Fifty

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-134
Author(s):  
Peter V. Marsden ◽  
Tom W. Smith ◽  
Michael Hout
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Current Characteristics

In the five decades since its inception in 1971, the General Social Survey (GSS) project has prospectively recorded the current characteristics, backgrounds, behaviors, and attitudes of representative cross sections of American adults covering more than two generations and more than a century of birth cohorts. A foundational resource for contemporary social science, the data it produces and disseminates enable social scientists to develop broad and deep understandings into the changing fabric of US society, and aid legions of instructors and students in teaching and learning. It facilitates internationally comparative survey research and places the United States in the context of other societies through the International Social Survey Program, which it cofounded. This article first recounts the GSS's origins, design, and development. It then surveys contributions based on GSS data to studies of stratification and inequality, religion, sociopolitical trends, intergroup relations, social capital and social networks, health and well-being, culture, and methodology.

scholarly journals A Rolling Panel Model of Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects for the Analysis of the General Social Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 004912412110431
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Morgan ◽  
Jiwon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Observation Interval ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Aging Effects ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Cohort Differences ◽  
Panel Model

The linear dependence of age, period, and birth cohort is a challenge for the analysis of social change. With either repeated cross-sectional data or conventional panel data, raw change cannot be decomposed into over-time differences that are attributable to the effects of common experiences of alternative birth cohorts, features of the periods under observation, and the cumulation of lifecourse aging. This article proposes a rolling panel model for cohort, period, and aging effects, suggested by and tuned to the treble panel data collected for the General Social Survey from 2006 through 2014. While the model does not offer a general solution for the identification of the classical age-period-cohort accounting model, it yields warranted interpretations under plausible assumptions that are reasonable for many outcomes of interest. In particular, if aging effects can be assumed to be invariant over the course of an observation interval, and if separate panel samples of the full age distribution overlap within the same observation interval, then period and aging effects can be parameterized and interpreted separately, adjusted for cohort differences that pulse through the same observation interval. The estimated cohort effects during the observation interval are then interpretable as effects during the observation interval of entangled period and cumulated aging differences from before the observation interval.

scholarly journals The provision of unpaid care across cohorts and genders: A research note

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Christine Proulx
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Care Recipients ◽  
Care Relationships ◽  
Nous Examinons ◽  
Provision Of Care ◽  
The Relationship

In this study, the caregiving history collected in the 2007 General Social Survey (GSS) is used to document the provision of care since the age of 15 years, the number of people helped, and the relationship with the care recipients. Using life tables, we confirm an upward trend in caregiving across birth cohorts. Unexpectedly, the findings also show that providing care starts at earlier ages in more recent cohorts—a result that appears partly linked to the emergence of new care relationships—and that the gender gap in the provision of care has widened over time.Dans le cadre de cette étude, nous examinons les soins fournis depuis l’âge de 15 ans, le nombre de personnes aidées et la nature des liens avec ces personnes en nous basant sur l’historique des soins prodigués recueilli dans l’Enquête sociale générale (ESG) de 2007. À l’aide de tables d’extinction simple, nous confirmons l’augmentation de la prestation de soins au fil des cohortes de naissance. Par ailleurs, les soins commencent de plus en plus tôt, notamment grâce à l’apparition de nouveaux types de relations d’aide, et l’écart dans la prestation de soins se creuse entre les hommes et les femmes.

scholarly journals A Rolling Panel Model of Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects for the Analysis of the General Social Survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Morgan ◽  
Jiwon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Observation Interval ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Aging Effects ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Cohort Differences ◽  
Panel Model

The linear dependence of age, period, and birth cohort is a challenge for the analysis of social change. With either repeated cross-sectional data or conventional panel data, raw change cannot be decomposed into over-time differences that are attributable to the effects of common experiences of alternative birth cohorts, features of the periods under observation, and the cumulation of lifecourse aging. This article proposes a rolling panel model for cohort, period, and aging effects, suggested by and tuned to the treble panel data collected for the General Social Survey (GSS) from 2006 through 2014. While the model does not offer a general solution for the identification of the classical age-period-cohort (APC) accounting model, it yields warranted interpretations under plausible assumptions that are reasonable for many outcomes of interest. In particular, if aging effects can be assumed to be invariant over the course of an observation interval, and if separate panel samples of the full age distribution overlap within the same observation interval, then period and aging effects can be parameterized and interpreted separately, adjusted for cohort differences that pulse through the same observation interval. The estimated cohort effects during the observation interval are then interpretable as effects during the observation interval of entangled period and cumulated aging differences from before the observation interval.

scholarly journals Divorce Attitudes Among Older Adults: Two Decades of Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1018-1037
Author(s):  
Susan L. Brown ◽  
Matthew R. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Divorce Rate ◽  
Attitudinal Change ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Cohort Change

The authors used data from the 1994, 2002, and 2012 General Social Survey ( N = 1,450) to examine whether support for divorce has increased among adults aged 50 years and older. Consistent with the rise in the gray divorce rate, today’s older adults were more accepting of divorce than their predecessors were two decades ago. Attitudinal change was modest between 1994 and 2002, but accelerated after 2002. The acceleration was primarily due to period rather than cohort change, signaling the role of broader shifts in the meaning of marriage as it has become deinstitutionalized. Older birth cohorts and individuals who were either divorced or remarried were especially likely to hold supportive attitudes toward divorce.

GSS 2011 Linked with TIFF: Exploring the Cost of Child Care in Canada and the Use of the Child Care Tax Benefit

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Leanne Findlay ◽  
Dafna Kohen
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Employment Characteristics ◽  
Different Sources

Affordability of child care is fundamental to parents’, in particular, women’s decision to work. However, information on the cost of care in Canada is limited. The purpose of the current study was to examine the feasibility of using linked survey and administrative data to compare and contrast parent-reported child care costs based on two different sources of data. The linked file brings together data from the 2011 General Social Survey (GSS) and the annual tax files (TIFF) for the corresponding year (2010). Descriptive analyses were conducted to examine the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of respondents who reported using child care, and child care costs were compared. In 2011, parents who reported currently paying for child care (GSS) spent almost $6700 per year ($7,500 for children age 5 and under). According to the tax files, individuals claimed just over $3900 per year ($4,700). Approximately one in four individuals who reported child care costs on the GSS did not report any amount on their tax file; about four in ten who claimed child care on the tax file did not report any cost on the survey. Multivariate analyses suggested that individuals with a lower education, lower income, with Indigenous identity, and who were self-employed were less likely to make a tax claim despite reporting child care expenses on the GSS. Further examination of child care costs by province and by type of care are necessary, as is research to determine the most accurate way to measure and report child care costs.

Mapping the General Social Survey to the Generic Statistical Business Process Model: NORC's Experience

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Scot Ausborn ◽  
Julia Rotondo ◽  
Tim Mulcahy
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Business Process Model ◽  
Social Survey

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