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Now, I’d like to ask you how good a job you feel some of the parts of our government are doing. As I read, please give me the number that best describes how good a job you feel that part of the government is doing for the country as a whole. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON
Performance rating of the federal government · Asked in 3 waves, 1974–1980 · 4,892 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Codes that include 'no Pre/Post IW' were dropped for respondents without that interview. Kept and flagged: 9 (other_missing).
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Very poor job | 1 | Poor job | 3 | Fair job |
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| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
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| ANES 1980 Time Series Study Source variable: V800762. | 1980-09-02 to 1981-02-07 | face to face | 1,614 | 1,408 |
| ANES 1976 Time Series Study Source variable: V763548. | 1976-09-07 to 1977-01-30 | face to face | 2,248 | 1,909 |
| ANES 1974 Time Series Study Source variable: V742251. | 1974-11-06 to 1975-01-31 | face to face | 1,575 | 1,575 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
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| Good job |
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| Very good job |
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| All respondents | 5% | 2% | 19% | 12% | 45% | 8% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 1408 | ±3 | |
| Protestant | 5% | 2% | 19% | 12% | 44% | 8% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 889 | ±3 | |
| Catholic | 4% | 1% | 22% | 11% | 46% | 7% | 9% | 0% | – | 318 | ±5 | |
| Jewish † | – | 7% | 17% | 24% | 46% | 2% | – | 2% | – | 41 | ±15 | |
| Other faith † | Too few respondents | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | ±23 |
| None | 6% | 6% | 16% | 11% | 47% | 9% | 5% | – | – | 130 | ±9 |
ANES 1980 Time Series Study · US citizens 18+ living in households in the contiguous 48 states. Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.