Confidence in scientific community

consci

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 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? READ EACH ITEM; CODE ONE FOR EACH. K. Scientific Community

Values

[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(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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
-/-	1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987
B/C	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for consci.

Counts by year:

year	iap	a great deal	only some	hardly any	don't know	no answer	skipped on web	Total
1973	-	552	704	97	142	9	-	1504
1974	-	667	558	99	157	3	-	1484
1975	-	560	672	96	159	3	-	1490
1976	-	638	564	112	172	13	-	1499
1977	-	624	696	83	119	8	-	1530
1978	-	553	737	111	126	5	-	1532
1980	-	607	622	93	140	6	-	1468
1982	-	645	886	133	179	17	-	1860
1983	-	662	745	85	101	6	-	1599
1984	484	436	430	54	56	13	-	1473
1986	-	569	697	113	84	7	-	1470
1987	-	754	793	130	135	7	-	1819
1988	484	385	473	56	78	5	-	1481
1989	502	414	460	63	93	5	-	1537
1990	473	335	425	59	79	1	-	1372
1991	500	411	467	63	73	3	-	1517
1993	549	395	496	71	90	5	-	1606
1994	981	769	986	141	105	10	-	2992
1996	979	752	867	144	155	7	-	2904
1998	921	756	855	149	145	6	-	2832
2000	921	779	819	141	149	8	-	2817
2002	1853	336	440	81	55	-	-	2765
2004	1936	359	434	52	30	1	-	2812
2006	2521	807	943	140	98	1	-	4510
2008	658	524	701	76	63	1	-	2023
2010	667	544	683	79	65	6	-	2044
2012	636	529	643	92	73	1	-	1974
2014	851	680	811	132	59	5	-	2538
2016	911	791	976	117	69	3	-	2867
2018	785	681	725	100	55	2	-	2348
2021	1360	1337	1141	176	4	-	14	4032
2022	1173	930	1088	296	51	3	3	3544
Total	20145	19781	22537	3434	3159	170	17	69243