Can people be trusted

trust

Source

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

Details

Question 163a. Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in life?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	can't be too careful	depends	don't know	most people can be trusted	no answer	iap	not available in this year	Total
1972	803	56	15	738	1	-	-	1613
1973	765	44	3	690	2	-	-	1504
1974	-	-	-	-	-	1484	-	1484
1975	830	64	7	584	5	-	-	1490
1976	775	56	2	664	2	-	-	1499
1977	-	-	-	-	-	1530	-	1530
1978	866	66	4	596	-	-	-	1532
1980	741	55	5	665	2	-	-	1468
1982	-	-	-	-	-	1860	-	1860
1983	469	35	2	296	2	795	-	1599
1984	724	37	4	700	8	-	-	1473
1985	-	-	-	-	-	1534	-	1534
1986	876	39	4	551	-	-	-	1470
1987	1045	66	2	697	9	-	-	1819
1988	562	43	5	385	2	484	-	1481
1989	569	39	3	422	2	502	-	1537
1990	517	39	-	342	1	473	-	1372
1991	573	50	2	390	2	500	-	1517
1993	630	45	4	377	1	549	-	1606
1994	1229	85	7	681	9	981	-	2992
1996	1166	99	6	650	4	979	-	2904
1998	1326	137	7	883	5	474	-	2832
2000	1093	124	9	662	8	921	-	2817
2002	528	72	2	310	-	1853	-	2765
2004	507	54	1	314	-	1936	-	2812
2006	1521	174	-	814	1	2000	-	4510
2008	859	56	-	450	-	658	-	2023
2010	839	75	3	458	2	667	-	2044
2012	847	53	7	431	-	636	-	1974
2014	1076	88	3	519	1	851	-	2538
2016	1244	79	5	623	5	911	-	2867
2018	995	69	6	492	1	785	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	804	107	2	306	-	2325	-	3544
2024	604	108	7	236	1	2353	-	3309
Total	25383	2114	127	15926	76	28041	4032	75699

Values

• 1 most people can be trusted

• 2 can't be too careful

• 3 depends

• 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