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Share selecting none of the listed purposes for approving use of U.S. military troops, from the CES check-all-that-apply item asked in 2020, 2022, and 2024.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 13% answered “Selected none of the above” in CES: Approve troop use: none of the above, 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Approve troops: none of the above | Approve troops: none of the above Would you approve of the use of U.S. military troops in order to ... ? (Please check all that apply) [None of the above] Caveat: Check-all item; 'not selected' assumes at least one other purpose was checked, though some may have skipped all. | identical | Selected → Selected none of the above; Not selected → Selected at least one purpose |
| CES: Use of troops: none of the above | Use of troops: none of the above Would you approve of the use of U.S. military troops in order to ... ? (Please check all that apply) [None of the above] Caveat: Check-all item; 'not selected' assumes at least one other purpose was checked. The list of purposes may differ by year. | identical | Selected → Selected none of the above; Not selected → Selected at least one purpose |
| CES: Approve troop use: none of the above | Approve troop use: none of the above Would you approve of the use of U.S. military troops in order to ... ? (Please check all that apply) [None of the above] Caveat: Check-all item; 'not selected' assumes at least one other purpose was checked. The list of purposes may differ by year. | identical | Selected → Selected none of the above; Not selected → Selected at least one purpose |