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Trust scoreboard
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Click an institution to see its trend. The change column compares with a year earlier: the survey closest to a year before, or the previous year when a whole year is pooled. Sparklines show every survey since 2020 on the same wording.
Compare
Bars show each group; thin lines are 95% margins of error; the vertical line is all . The change compares with a year earlier: the survey closest to a year before, or the previous year when a whole year is pooled.
Sorted by the distance between the highest and lowest group. Click a row to follow that gap over time.
The gap over time
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States ranked
Number of clusters
The trust map
Institutions close together are trusted by the same people: someone who trusts one tends to trust the other. Circle size shows how widely each is trusted. Lines join pairs with a correlation of 0.5 or more. The map is turned to line up with the latest year, so positions can be compared across periods.
The clusters
Who trusts what together
Each cell is the correlation between trust in two institutions across respondents (weighted). Blue: people who trust one tend to trust the other. Red: people who trust one tend to distrust the other. The tree on the left joins the most alike first; boxes mark the clusters.
How the clusters changed
Do the same people trust both?
The correlation between trust in two institutions in each survey, for everyone and within each party.
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Every estimate is a weighted percentage from one survey wave (or a pool of waves), with its margin of error and the number of respondents behind it. Estimates with an effective sample (after weighting) below are left out.