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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: 17% answered “Neither agree nor disagree” in CES: Racial problems are rare, isolated situations, 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: 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 |