According to the University of Chicago's General Social Survey, in 1977, 54% of American households had guns.
According to the General Social Survey, the public has grown increasingly accepting of gay relationships since the late 1980s.
According to the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey in 2010, Hispanics vote at far lower frequencies than other racial and ethnic groups.
For example, the General Social Survey has long found three-quarters of Americans saying everyone should have to get a permit from the local police before buying a gun.
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According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades.
Data from the General Social Survey, for instance, shows businesses with employee stock plans laid off workers at a rate of just 2.6% in 2010, compared with 12.1% at companies without such plans.
The 2010 General Social Survey reported that Hispanics are more than a third likelier than non-Hispanics to say that the government should do more to improve standards of living for the needy (39% to 26%).
That year, the General Social Survey (GSS) found that those who were against higher levels of government redistribution privately gave four times as much money, on average, as people who were in favor of redistribution.
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Using 35 years of data from the General Social Survey, two Wharton School economists, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, made the case in 2009 that women's happiness appeared to be declining over time despite their advances in the work force and education.
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Data gathered between 1996 and 2006 by the University of Chicago's General Social Survey revealed that in the country's 12 largest cities, about 18% of married men and women had more than one partner, compared with 15% of respondents in the corresponding suburban areas.
Mining electoral data from the General Social Survey, they found that the decline in white working-class support for Democrats occurred in one period from the mid-seventies until the early nineties, with a brief lull in the early eighties and has remained well below fifty per cent ever since.
Forbes contributor Steve Denning recently wrote two pieces, one about the most hated jobs, using data from another jobs website, CareerBliss, and a piece about the supposedly happiest jobs from a Christian Science Monitor slide show about a four-year-old General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.
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