The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

Trust the Federal Government 1958 -2014

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  '58 '60 '62 '64 '66 '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14
None of the Time (vol.) 0
(0)		 ** ** 0
(1)		 2
(32)		 0
(2)		 0
(4)		 1
(13)		 1
(30)		 1
(35)		 4
(92)		 4
(64)		 2
(35)		 1
(23)		 2
(25)		 2
(43)		 2
(37)		 2
(43)		 3
(57)		 1
(11)		 1
(19)		 1
(13)		 0
(5)		 1
(13)		 ** 2
(19)		 ** 2
(53)		 **
Some of the Time 23
(416)		 ** ** 22
(316)		 28
(363)		 36
(486)		 44
(662)		 44
(1010)		 61
(1512)		 62
(1775)		 64
(1458)		 69
(1107)		 62
(868)		 53
(1015)		 57
(621)		 56
(985)		 69
(1348)		 68
(1530)		 74
(1312)		 66
(990)		 58
(741)		 55
(842)		 44
(580)		 52
(552)		 ** 68
(716)		 ** 76
(2255)		 **
Most of the Time 57
(1013)		 ** ** 62
(900)		 48
(619)		 54
(724)		 47
(708)		 48
(1089)		 34
(839)		 30
(854)		 27
(608)		 23
(372)		 31
(436)		 40
(776)		 35
(381)		 36
(645)		 25
(492)		 26
(581)		 19
(342)		 30
(453)		 36
(466)		 40
(610)		 51
(665)		 43
(454)		 ** 25
(267)		 ** 20
(585)		 **
Just About Always 16
(282)		 ** ** 14
(207)		 17
(217)		 7
(98)		 6
(97)		 5
(120)		 2
(62)		 3
(99)		 2
(57)		 2
(33)		 2
(22)		 4
(70)		 3
(35)		 4
(74)		 3
(57)		 3
(71)		 2
(43)		 3
(40)		 4
(45)		 4
(67)		 5
(62)		 4
(38)		 ** 5
(55)		 ** 2
(71)		 **
Don't Know, Depends 4
(63)		 ** ** 1
(21)		 4
(54)		 2
(27)		 2
(26)		 2
(47)		 2
(56)		 3
(98)		 3
(73)		 2
(30)		 3
(40)		 2
(37)		 2
(19)		 1
(21)		 1
(29)		 1
(23)		 1
(14)		 0
(2)		 1
(7)		 1
(9)		 0
(0)		 0
(5)		 ** 0
(1)		 ** 0
(8)		 **
N 1774 0 0 1445 1285 1337 1497 2279 2499 2861 2288 1606 1401 1921 1081 1768 1963 2248 1768 1496 1278 1541 1312 1062 0 1058 0 2972 0

Percentage Within Study Year
Table 5A.1.
Source: VCF0604 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset, weighted with VCF0009z
Link to see data by mode (2012)

Percent among demographic groups who responded:

Some of the Time/ None of the Time
Most of the Time/ Just About Always

Question Text:

""How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right-- just about always, most of the time or only some of the time?"

Note:

2012 data are for the combined (face-to-face and internet) sample.

For 2012, the 'Don't Know/Other' category represents face-to-face Don't Know cases only (in the 2012 Web instrument, a Don't Know category was not present).

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