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What kind of work did your father or father surrogate do for a living while you were growing up?
Father's occupation while growing up, 1978-1996 · Asked in 4 waves, 1978–1996 · 6,975 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Dropped as not asked: 0 'Father wasn’t living; not raised by father; no parallel information for parental surrogate'. Kept and flagged: 98 (dk), 99 (no_answer). Codebook notes: 1996 NOTE: No code corresponding to 15 in Study data.
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANES 1996 Time Series Study Source variable: V960710. | 1996-09-03 to 1997-01-02 | mixed | 1,714 | 1,696 |
| ANES 1982 Time Series Study Source variable: V820747. | 1982-11-02 to 1983-01-31 | face to face | 1,418 | 1,394 |
| ANES 1980 Time Series Study Source variable: V800705. | 1980-09-02 to 1981-02-07 | face to face | 1,614 | 1,595 |
| ANES 1978 Time Series Study Source variable: V780618. | 1978-11-08 to 1979-01-25 | face to face | 2,304 | 2,290 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Professional, technical and kindred workers | Managers and administrators, except farm | Sales workers | Clerical and kindred workers | Craftsmen and kindred workers | Operatives, except transport | Transport equipment operatives | Laborers, except farm | Farmers (owners and tenants), farm managers, farmer – NA type | Farm foreman, farm laborer (wage-worker) | Service workers, except private household and government protective services | Government protective services: firemen; police; marshals and constables | Private household workers | Member of armed forces | Not in labor force | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | 12% | 13% | 4% | 2% | 23% | 8% | 8% | 5% | 11% | 2% | 4% | 1% | – | 3% | – | 1696 | ±3 | |
| Urban | 18% | 14% | 4% | 3% | 23% | 7% | 8% | |||||||||||
| Suburban | 13% | 17% | 5% | 3% | 22% | 8% | 8% | |||||||||||
| Rural | 8% | 9% | 3% | 1% | 25% | 10% | 9% |
ANES 1996 Time Series Study · US citizens 18+ living in households in the contiguous 48 states. Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.
| 6% |
| 7% |
| 1% |
| 5% |
| 1% |
| – |
| 4% |
| – |
| 457 |
| ±5 |
| 5% |
| 9% |
| 2% |
| 3% |
| 1% |
| – |
| 4% |
| – |
| 671 |
| ±4 |
| 6% |
| 18% |
| 3% |
| 4% |
| 2% |
| – |
| 3% |
| – |
| 568 |
| ±5 |