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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: 47% answered “Low trust (0-3)” in GSS: Trust in the U.S. Congress, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |