Which social class do you consider yourself part of?

Self-identified social class, 8 categories · Asked in 21 waves, 1956–2016 · 45,513 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses

Kept and flagged: 9 (other_missing). Codebook notes: GENERAL NOTE: Respondents who answered No or DK to the initial question (think of self as belonging to either middle or working class) were administered the followup that asked the respondent, if R ‘had to make a choice,’ to choose between middle or working. In some years, respondents who refused or did not answer the initial question were also asked the choice question (2012,2008,2004,2000,1990 and 1 post Web respondent in 2016). In 2000 only, respondents who answered Yes to the initial question but who gave an Other response to the followup ‘Which one?’ were asked the choice question. Respondents who volunteered upper or lower class in response to any of the questions have been coded as such here (0 or 7). 1992 NOTE: This set of questions was not part of the ‘short-form’ questionnaire; for short-form panel cases, however, 1990 study data were incorporated in the 1992 summary var. 2000 NOTE: The 2000 summary variable used here appropriately coded into its categories the open-end Other Specify responses corresponding to lower, working, middle or upper class. The 2000 summary variable categories are the same as in VCF0148. 2016 NOTE: In 2016, a half sample of respondents were asked this 4-question version for social class in the pre-election wave and the remaining half sample were asked in the post.