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Whether America benefits from membership in NAFTA (2004 and 2014) or its successor, USMCA (2024), on a five-point scale collapsed to any benefit versus no benefit at all.
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Latest: 94% answered “Benefits” in GSS: Whether the U.S. benefits from the USMCA, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Extent America benefits from NAFTA membership | Extent America benefits from NAFTA membership A. How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statement? (Please, select one response)
Generally speaking, would you say that America benefits or does not benefit from being a member of NAFTA? Caveat: Graded scale collapsed; 'only a little' counted as benefits | equivalent | Greatly benefits → Benefits; Largely benefits → Benefits; Somewhat benefits → Benefits; Benefits only a little → Benefits; Does not benefit at all → Does not benefit |
| GSS: Whether the U.S. benefits from the USMCA | Whether the U.S. benefits from the USMCA Generally speaking, would you say that America benefits or does not benefit from being a member of United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)? Caveat: Asks about USMCA, not NAFTA; graded scale collapsed, 'only a little' counted as benefits | similar | Greatly benefits → Benefits; Largely benefits → Benefits; Somewhat benefits → Benefits; Benefits only a little → Benefits; Does not benefit at all → Does not benefit |