General Social Survey, 2002

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MAWRKSLF Was respondent's mother self-employed or did she work for someone else?   1) Self-employed   2) Someone else   9) No answer

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Self-employed	181	10.9%	10.9%	-1.26
Someone else	1465	88.1%	99%	.06
No answer	16	1%	100%	9.25

Variable Comparisons

Race Marital status Age Family income Political ideology Religion Education Sex

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	TOTAL
Self-employed	10.2% 131	14.0% 38	10.8% 169
Someone else	89.1% 1149	83.8% 228	88.2% 1377
No answer	0.7% 9	2.2% 6	1.0% 15
TOTAL	100.0% 1289	100.0% 272	1561

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Divorced	Separated	Never married	TOTAL
Self-employed	11.1% 82	12.7% 13	13.1% 35	16.4% 10	8.3% 41	10.9% 181
Someone else	87.9% 648	85.3% 87	85.8% 230	82.0% 50	91.1% 450	88.1% 1465
No answer	0.9% 7	2.0% 2	1.1% 3	1.6% 1	0.6% 3	1.0% 16
TOTAL	100.0% 737	100.0% 102	100.0% 268	100.0% 61	100.0% 494	1662

Age (I-AGE)

	18-30	31-44	45-64	65+	TOTAL
Self-employed	10.1% 45	10.3% 54	9.7% 50	18.4% 32	10.9% 181
Someone else	89.2% 398	89.0% 467	89.7% 464	78.2% 136	88.1% 1465
No answer	0.7% 3	0.8% 4	0.6% 3	3.4% 6	1.0% 16
TOTAL	100.0% 446	100.0% 525	100.0% 517	100.0% 174	1662

Family income (I-FINCOME)

	Less than $10K	$10K-19,999	$20K-24,999	$25K or over	TOTAL
Self-employed	17.4% 28	9.8% 19	9.7% 10	10.1% 107	10.8% 164
Someone else	80.7% 130	89.7% 174	89.3% 92	89.2% 946	88.3% 1342
No answer	1.9% 3	0.5% 1	1.0% 1	0.8% 8	0.9% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 161	100.0% 194	100.0% 103	100.0% 1061	1519

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Conservative	Don't know	TOTAL
Self-employed	12.4% 29	7.3% 23	13.5% 33	19.0% 4	11.0% 89
Someone else	86.3% 201	92.0% 288	85.7% 209	81.0% 17	88.2% 715
No answer	1.3% 3	0.6% 2	0.8% 2	0.0% 0	0.9% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 233	100.0% 313	100.0% 244	100.0% 21	811

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other	Don't know	TOTAL
Self-employed	10.0% 88	11.8% 48	5.0% 1	11.4% 26	15.1% 18	0.0% 0	10.9% 181
Someone else	88.9% 781	88.2% 359	90.0% 18	88.2% 201	82.4% 98	100.0% 2	88.2% 1459
No answer	1.1% 10	0.0% 0	5.0% 1	0.4% 1	2.5% 3	0.0% 0	0.9% 15
TOTAL	100.0% 879	100.0% 407	100.0% 20	100.0% 228	100.0% 119	100.0% 2	1655

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school	Associate/Junior college	Bachelor's	Graduate	TOTAL
Self-employed	15.4% 28	9.5% 87	11.5% 16	10.2% 29	15.7% 21	10.9% 181
Someone else	83.5% 152	89.6% 824	87.8% 122	88.8% 253	83.6% 112	88.1% 1463
No answer	1.1% 2	1.0% 9	0.7% 1	1.1% 3	0.7% 1	1.0% 16
TOTAL	100.0% 182	100.0% 920	100.0% 139	100.0% 285	100.0% 134	1660

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Self-employed	12.1% 87	10.0% 94	10.9% 181
Someone else	87.1% 628	88.9% 837	88.1% 1465
No answer	0.8% 6	1.1% 10	1.0% 16
TOTAL	100.0% 721	100.0% 941	1662