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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 165. I am going to name some institutions in this country. As far as the people running these institutions are concerned, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence, or hardly any confidence at all in them? f. Organized labor.
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | a great deal | don't know | hardly any | no answer | only some | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | - | 232 | 62 | 384 | 9 | 817 | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | - | 270 | 41 | 377 | 3 | 793 | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | - | 150 | 95 | 436 | 2 | 807 | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | - | 173 | 118 | 493 | 5 | 710 | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | - | 225 | 59 | 483 | 6 | 757 | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | - | 168 | 78 | 575 | 4 | 707 | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | - | 220 | 85 | 434 | 2 | 727 | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | - | 241 | 81 | 520 | 12 | 1006 | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | - | 127 | 66 | 630 | 2 | 774 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 484 | 84 | 24 | 353 | 11 | 517 | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | - | 117 | 79 | 576 | 5 | 693 | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 211 | 106 | 556 | 5 | 941 | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 484 | 99 | 52 | 344 | 4 | 498 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 502 | 97 | 66 | 345 | 3 | 524 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 473 | 96 | 47 | 279 | 1 | 476 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 500 | 112 | 67 | 345 | 2 | 491 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 549 | 87 | 73 | 340 | 4 | 553 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 981 | 198 | 111 | 648 | 9 | 1045 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 979 | 215 | 162 | 567 | 2 | 979 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 921 | 210 | 155 | 556 | 4 | 986 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 921 | 239 | 185 | 500 | 10 | 962 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1853 | 101 | 50 | 210 | 1 | 550 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1936 | 103 | 44 | 249 | 2 | 478 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2521 | 223 | 111 | 568 | - | 1087 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 658 | 165 | 60 | 358 | 1 | 781 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 667 | 146 | 74 | 373 | 3 | 781 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 636 | 152 | 78 | 385 | 4 | 719 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 851 | 196 | 72 | 488 | 2 | 929 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 911 | 249 | 78 | 440 | 4 | 1185 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 785 | 211 | 70 | 310 | 5 | 967 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1360 | 297 | 8 | 696 | - | 1655 | 16 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1173 | 311 | 84 | 582 | 4 | 1383 | 7 | 3544 |
| Total | 23292 | 5725 | 2541 | 14400 | 131 | 26278 | 23 | 72390 |
1 a great deal
2 only some
3 hardly any
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook