Is there a guide or spreadsheet showing which variables are included in a GSS cycle over time? I have a researcher working with Cycle 26, Caregiving and Care Receiving (2012) and would like to see a comparison of what variables are in each cycle without having to go through each survey individually.
Answer:
As I have not seen an answer to this, I thought I'd draw your attention to a resource that the students in my data librarianship course at U of T created a few years ago.
The following two spreadsheets contain concordances of a sort. One covers the victimization surveys in detail(Cycles 3, 8, 13, 18, 23, and 28) and is available to download here:
https://hdl.handle.net/10864/11541 . The other is a general concordance to GSS variables for Cycles 1-26. It is not complete and was meant to be something to which subsequent classes would contribute but that did not happen for a variety of reasons I'd rather not iscuss. It is available here: https://hdl.handle.net/10864/10937
