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How much trust respondents have in their own state government to handle problems, on a four-point scale from a great deal to none at all; the 2022 item asks about the nation's problems while the 2024 item asks about the state's problems, so levels may not be strictly comparable.
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 “A fair amount” in CES: Trust in state government to handle problems, 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: Trust in state government to handle national problems | Trust in state government to handle national problems How much trust do you have in the government of the state where you live when it comes to handling the nation’s problems? Caveat: Asks about state government handling the nation's problems, not the state's own; levels not strictly comparable with 2024. | similar | A great deal → A great deal; A fair amount → A fair amount; Not very much → Not very much; None at all → None at all |
| CES: Trust in state government to handle problems | Trust in state government to handle problems How much trust do you have in the government of the state where you live when it comes to handling the state's problems? Caveat: Reference wording: state government handling the state's problems; differs from the 2022 wording. | identical | A great deal → A great deal; A fair amount → A fair amount; Not very much → Not very much; None at all → None at all |