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Agreement that public officials don't care much what people like the respondent think.
Latest: 70% answered “Agree” in ANES, 2024.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
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.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
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 9 points on average across all answers.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANES | Officials care what people like me think 1952-1980,1982,1992: Now I’d like to read some of the kinds of things people tell us when we interview them. Please tell me whether (1992: and ask you whether) (1966,1988,1990,1994-LATER: how much) you agree or disagree with these statements (1992: with them) (2002: about the government.) (1988,1990: You can just give me the number of your choice.) (1992: I’ll read them one at a time and you just tell me whether you agree or disagree) (1996 and later: The first is:)
1952-1988,1992:
‘I don’t think public officials care much what people like me think.’
1990,1994-LATER:
‘Public officials don’t care much what people like me think.’
2000 TELEPHONE,2002:
Do you agree, neither agree nor disagree, or disagree with this statement? | identical | Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Neither agree nor disagree (1988 and later only) → Neither |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
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.