Brett, An excellent, albeit somewhat dated resource is Davis and Smith's book The NORC General Social Survey: A User's Guide (Sage, 1992). You also will find considerable information about the GSS in chapters 8 and 9 of Singleton and Straits' Approaches to Social Research (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005). These chapters report many of the survey methods and materials used in conducting the GSS.
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