In your day-to-day life how often have any of the following things happened to you? People act as if they are afraid of you.
How often people act afraid of you · Asked in 4 waves, 2018–2024 · 8,775 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
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 | Almost every day | At least once a week | A few times a month | A few times a year | Less than once a year | Never | n | MoE |
|---|
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2024 | 2024-04-05 to 2024-12-02 | mixed | 3,309 | 2,242 |
| General Social Survey 2022 | 2022-05-08 to 2023-01-08 | mixed | 3,544 | 2,337 |
| General Social Survey 2021 | 2020-12-03 to 2021-05-02 | web | 4,032 | 2,622 |
| General Social Survey 2018 | 2018-04-12 to 2018-11-10 | face to face | 2,348 | 1,574 |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
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.
| All respondents | 3% | 3% | 5% | 13% | 13% | 63% | 2242 | ±3 |
| Liberals | 2% | 2% | 4% | 15% | 16% | 61% | 610 | ±6 |
| Moderates | 3% | 4% | 7% | 14% | 11% | 62% | 806 | ±5 |
| Conservatives | 4% | 2% | 3% | 11% | 13% | 66% | 723 | ±5 |
General Social Survey 2024 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). 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.