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Confidence in schools and the educational system (GSS) or in public schools to do what is right (CPS); the GSS scale has five points, including 'complete confidence', and the CPS scale has four.
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 “Low or no confidence” in GSS, 2018.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
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.
Groups differ from everyone by 4 points on average across all answers, in GSS.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPS Civic Engagement | Confidence in public schools to do what is right I am going to name some institutions in this country. For each of these institutions, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence, hardly any confidence, or no confidence at all in them to do what is right? Public Schools? Caveat: 4-point scale with no middle option; asks about public schools only, 'to do what is right' | similar | A great deal of confidence → High confidence; Some confidence → Moderate confidence; Hardly any confidence → Low or no confidence; No confidence at all → Low or no confidence |
| GSS | Confidence in schools and the educational system How much confidence do you have in. . .
F. Schools and the educational system Caveat: 5-point scale with an extra top category; 'schools and educational system' wording | equivalent | Complete confidence → High confidence; A great deal of confidence → High confidence; Some confidence → Moderate confidence; Very little confidence → Low or no confidence; No confidence at all → Low or no confidence |
Groups differ from everyone by 4 points on average across all answers, in GSS.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.