Do you think of yourself as average or upper middle or working class?

Average or upper middle or working class · Asked in 21 waves, 1956–2016 · 45,513 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses

Not loaded for 1960, 1964, and 1986: the follow-up (average or upper part of the class) was not asked those years (codebook 1960 note), so the cumulative file filled codes 2 and 5 ('NA average or upper') from VCF0149. Working vs. middle class for those years is in VCF0149. Kept and flagged: 9 (other_missing). Codebook notes: GENERAL NOTE: Respondents who volunteered upper or lower class in response to any of the questions (0 or 7 in VCF0148a) have been coded 9. 1960 NOTE: Because the final question (average or upper) was not asked, data from VCF0149 have been incorporated in the following manner: if VCF0149 is coded 1 or 2, this variable is coded 5; if VCF0149 is coded 3 or 4, this variable is coded 2. 1964 NOTE: same as 1960. 1986 NOTE: same as 1960. 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.