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Agreement that racial problems in the U.S. are rare, isolated situations, asked in the CES in 2018 and 2020 through 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: 27% answered “Somewhat disagree” in CES: Racial problems are rare, isolated situations, 2024.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. 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: Racial problems are rare, isolated situations | Racial problems are rare, isolated situations you agree or disagree with the following statements? [Racial problems in the U.S. are rare, isolated situations. Do] Caveat: Same 5-point agree/disagree scale; 2018 wording slightly truncated in the archive | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Somewhat agree → Somewhat agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Somewhat disagree → Somewhat disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| CES: Racial problems in the U.S. are rare, isolated situations | Racial problems in the U.S. are rare, isolated situations Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? [Racial problems in the U.S. are rare, isolated situations.] Caveat: Same scale and wording; item text truncated in the archive | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Somewhat agree → Somewhat agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Somewhat disagree → Somewhat disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| CES: Racial problems are rare, isolated situations | Racial problems are rare, isolated situations Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? [Racial problems in the U.S. are rare, isolated situations.] Caveat: Same scale and wording | identical | Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Somewhat agree → Somewhat agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Somewhat disagree → Somewhat disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |
| CES: Racial problems are rare, isolated situations | Racial problems are rare, isolated situations Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? [Racial problems in the U.S. are rare, isolated situations.] Caveat: Same scale and wording | identical |
| Strongly agree → Strongly agree; Somewhat agree → Somewhat agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Somewhat disagree → Somewhat disagree; Strongly disagree → Strongly disagree |