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How much trust respondents have in the federal government in Washington to handle the nation's problems, asked in the CES in 2022 and 2024 with the same four-point scale.
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: 6% answered “A great deal” in CES: Trust in the federal 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 federal government to handle national problems | Trust in federal government to handle national problems How much trust do you have in the federal government in Washington when it comes to handling the nation’s problems? Caveat: Reference question; code 8 is 'None at all' | 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 |
| CES: Trust in the federal government to handle problems | Trust in the federal government to handle problems How much trust do you have in the federal government in Washington when it comes to handling the nation's problems? Caveat: Same wording and scale as 2022; code 8 is 'None at all' | 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 |