The General Social Surveys

🤖 Plain-English Summary

The National Data Program for the Social Sciences is a social indicators and data diffusion program. The GSS is widely used in teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels.

🔑 Key Findings

• Both the General Social Survey (GSS) and the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys have been efficiently collected, widely distributed, and extensively analyzed by social scientists around the world.
• The GSS is divided into five components: the replicating core, topical modules, cross-national modules, experiments, and reinterviews and follow-up studies.
• The GSS has spurred cross-national research by inspiring other nations to develop similar data collection programs.

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