Are/were you self-employed or do/did you work for someone else? (If "Self-employed") Do/did you have any employees? (If "Yes") How many employees do/did you have? As of 2024, NUMEMPS has been recoded to ranges of employees. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of NUMEMPS. The original NUMEMPS containing data from 2004 to 2022 has been renamed NUMEMPS_0422.
Number of employees if self-employed, exact counts · Asked in 10 waves, 2004–2022 · 3,167 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Coded values: 97 means “97 or more”.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Weighted means. Groups with fewer than 50 respondents in a wave are left out of that wave.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2022 | 2022-05-08 to 2023-01-08 | mixed | 3,544 | 396 |
| General Social Survey 2021 | 2020-12-03 to 2021-05-02 | web | 4,032 | 431 |
| General Social Survey 2018 | 2018-04-12 to 2018-11-10 | face to face | 2,348 | 234 |
| General Social Survey 2016 | 2016-04-05 to 2016-11-19 | face to face | 2,867 | 297 |
| General Social Survey 2014 | 2014-03-31 to 2014-10-13 | face to face | 2,538 | 296 |
| General Social Survey 2012 | 2012-03-20 to 2012-09-05 | face to face | 1,974 | 195 |
| General Social Survey 2010 | 2010-03-15 to 2010-08-12 | face to face | 2,044 | 235 |
| General Social Survey 2008 | 2008-04-17 to 2008-09-13 | face to face | 2,023 | 227 |
| General Social Survey 2006 | 2006-03-07 to 2006-08-07 | face to face | 4,510 | 511 |
| General Social Survey 2004 |
| 2004-08-18 to 2005-01-04 |
| face to face |
| 2,812 |
| 345 |