Question
The GSS17 questionnaire has questions on ethnicity, but we are not finding a corresponding variable in the PUMF. The user guide does not address the issue of missing data, and I cannot seem to locate the user guide for the master file.
Could you ask the great folks at GSS where ethnicity is hiding in GSS17?
Answer
The GSS team has provided the following explanation for the missing ethnicity variables in the Cycle 17 PUMF:
"All the ethnic variables were suppressed the cycle 17 PUMF, in order to protect the confidentiality of respondents. This was done to all GSS PUMF that could have contained ethnic variables, except for cycle 20 that only has 7 categories of ethnic responses (those are very limited types of answers). This exercise of variable suppression is necessary to avoid the possibility of identifying respondents, based on certain characteristics that could be used to identify someone, such as their ethnic origin. The ethnic variables for cycle 17 are only available in the analytical file, available in the RDCs."
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