Trust in the U.S. Congress (0-10 scale)

Personal trust in the U.S. Congress on a 0-10 scale, asked in 2021 and 2024 with slightly different intros.

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: 43% answered “Low trust (0-3)” in GSS: Trust in the U.S. Congress, 2024.

Percentages ofpeople who answered everyone asked

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Low trust (0-3)Middle (4-6)High trust (7-10)

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.

Questions in this trend

Line	Question	Match	How answers map
GSS: Trust in the U.S. Congress	Trust in the U.S. Congress On a scale of 0 to 10, how much do you personally trust each of the following institutions? 0 means you do not trust an institution at all, and 10 means you trust it completely….The U.S. Congress. Caveat: Asked in a battery of institutions with an explicit 'personally trust' intro; may shift answers slightly	equivalent	No trust at all → Low trust (0-3); 1 → Low trust (0-3); 2 → Low trust (0-3); 3 → Low trust (0-3); 4 → Middle (4-6); 5 → Middle (4-6); 6 → Middle (4-6); 7 → High trust (7-10); 8 → High trust (7-10); 9 → High trust (7-10); Complete trust → High trust (7-10)
GSS: Trust in the U.S. Congress	Trust in the U.S. Congress How much do you trust the U.S. Congress? Caveat: Same 0-10 scale; the intro differs slightly from the other year's version	identical	0 - no trust → Low trust (0-3); 1 → Low trust (0-3); 2 → Low trust (0-3); 3 → Low trust (0-3); 4 → Middle (4-6); 5 → Middle (4-6); 6 → Middle (4-6); 7 → High trust (7-10); 8 → High trust (7-10); 9 → High trust (7-10); 10 - complete trust → High trust (7-10)