An Extract Program for the General Social Surveys
At this site, you can retrieve Extract, a program which permits
easy data extraction from the General Social Surveys, and also
the GSS data themselves in single year files. Written by Jesse Reichler
and Dean Savage, Extract runs on PCs under DOS and is intended for
use at sites where mainframe access is frustrating or difficult.
With Extract, you can select variables and years from the 1972-1994
General Social Surveys and then write variable definition and data files
for use with SPSS, SAS, QSTATS, or dBASE. You
can also output ASCII data files and variable lists. The questions from
the GSS codebook have been integrated into the program to permit
examination of question wording while making your selections.
You can retrieve the zipped versions of Extract and the General
Social Surveys by clicking on the appropriate links below. The data are
available in single year files; each year takes between .2 to .6 megs in
zipped format. To decompress the files, you will need
pkunzip.exe, which is also retrievable here.