Table 1.

Frequency of Participants Based on Year in the General Social Survey Overall and by Race

Year	All		Whites		Blacks
	n	%	n	%	n	%
1972	1601	3.8	1341	3.7	260	4.1
1973	1485	3.5	1304	3.6	181	2.8
1974	1472	3.5	1303	3.6	169	2.6
1975	1481	3.5	1318	3.7	163	2.5
1976	1489	3.5	1360	3.8	129	2.0
1977	1512	3.6	1336	3.7	176	2.8
1980	1451	3.4	1312	3.7	139	2.2
1982	1828	4.3	1322	3.7	506	7.9
1984	1388	3.3	1224	3.4	164	2.6
1985	1486	3.5	1336	3.7	150	2.3
1987	1725	4.1	1203	3.4	522	8.2
1988	926	2.2	796	2.2	130	2.0
1989	982	2.3	881	2.5	101	1.6
1990	869	2.1	772	2.2	97	1.5
1991	943	2.2	817	2.3	126	2.0
1993	1021	2.4	897	2.5	124	1.9
1994	1899	4.5	1638	4.6	261	4.1
1996	2278	5.4	1938	5.4	340	5.3
1998	2614	6.2	2218	6.2	396	6.2
2000	2145	5.1	1806	5.0	339	5.3
2002	869	2.1	746	2.1	123	1.9
2004	832	2.0	714	2.0	118	1.8
2006	1738	4.1	1466	4.1	272	4.3
2008	1223	2.9	1037	2.9	186	2.9
2010	1160	2.7	974	2.7	186	2.9
2012	1165	2.8	969	2.7	196	3.1
2014	1526	3.6	1256	3.5	270	4.2
2016	1698	4.0	1381	3.9	317	5.0
2018	1395	3.3	1137	3.2	258	4.0