What does GSS stand for?

Smith, Director of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

95 Paperback HM575 This guide for social research in Introductory Sociology courses, now in its third edition, uses new General Social Survey (GSS) data sets and a cross-national data analysis so that students can have access to information on a variety of subjects such as divorce, crime, abortion and violence.

The data includes The Canadian Community Health Survey, Ethnic Diversity Survey, General Social Survey, Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, National Population Health Survey, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, Workplace and Employee Survey, and Youth in Transition Survey and the Programme for International Student Assessments.

The questions of the General Social Survey are repeated year after year to enable researchers to detect trends and to make comparisons among groups and to see how the same people changed over time.

Researchers involved in the General Social Survey offer at least two reasons for the drop in Protestant affiliation.

2006) Percentage allowing Teachers 85 Nonteachers with 16 or more years of schooling 92 Nonteachers with 12 or fewer years of schooling 67 SOURCE: National Opinion Research Center, General Social Survey (via the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program at the University of California, Berkeley) Note: Table made from bar graph.

Drawing upon the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago, he estimated that r million Latinos had left the Catholic church in the United States between 1972 and 1989.

He added that a General Social Survey conducted by Statistics Canada in 2004 found that in terms of "social engagement," more and more Canadians (30 per cent) are involved in religious-led activities, "marginally ahead of participation in sports and recreational groups, followed by union and professional group activities.