How often congress keeps promises

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Source

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

Details

Question How often do the people we elect to Congress try to keep the promises they have made during the election: Never, rarely, sometimes, very often, or extremely often?

Values

• [1] never

• [2] rarely

• [3] sometimes

• [4] very often

• [5] extremely often

• [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
A/C	2012

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for polefy16.

Counts by year:

year	iap	never	rarely	sometimes	very often	extremely often	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
2012	1328	59	215	288	49	5	28	2	-	1974
Total	1328	59	215	288	49	5	28	2	0	1974

See also

Other ISSP Role of Gov't: polefy11, polefy13, polefy15, polefy17, polefy3, prespop, volacty2, volactyr

Other Federal Government: polefy17

Other Political: polefy11, polefy13, polefy15, polefy3, prespop