How often congress keeps promises

polefy16

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

year	ballots	availability
2012	A/C	partial

Link at the GSS

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See also

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