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Other than being a housewife, did your mother (or mother substitute) have a job while you were growing up? (IF YES: ) What kind of work did she do?
Mother's occupation while growing up, 1978-1982 · Asked in 3 waves, 1978–1982 · 5,333 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Dropped as not asked: 0 'Mother wasn’t living; not raised by mother; no parallel information for parental surrogate'. Kept and flagged: 98 (dk), 99 (no_answer).
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 1982 Time Series Study Source variable: V820748,V820749. | 1982-11-02 to 1983-01-31 | face to face | 1,418 | 1,416 |
| ANES 1980 Time Series Study Source variable: V800706,V800707. | 1980-09-02 to 1981-02-07 | face to face | 1,614 | 1,614 |
| ANES 1978 Time Series Study Source variable: V780619,V780620. | 1978-11-08 to 1979-01-25 | face to face | 2,304 | 2,303 |
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 | 6% | 2% | 4% | 8% | 1% | 9% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 8% | – | 2% | – | 58% | 1416 | ±3 | |
| Urban | 7% | 3% | 3% | 8% | 1% | 12% | 0% | – | 1% | 1% | 9% | |||||||
| Suburban | 6% | 3% | 4% | 10% | 1% | 8% | – | 0% | 1% | 1% | 8% | |||||||
| Rural | 4% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 0% | 8% | – | 1% | 1% | 2% | 7% | – |
ANES 1982 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.
| – |
| 3% |
| – |
| 52% |
| 392 |
| ±5 |
| – |
| 2% |
| – |
| 57% |
| 520 |
| ±4 |
| 2% |
| – |
| 65% |
| 504 |
| ±4 |