Trust scoreboard
The trust question changed wording in 2022. From April 2020 to September 2022 (W1 to W24), CHIP50 asked: “How much do you trust the following people and organizations to do the right thing to best handle the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak?” Since October 2022 (W25 on) it asks how much people trust them “to do what is right.” The answer options stayed the same: a lot, some, not too much, not at all.
Why it matters. The earlier question is about the pandemic, so its answers are not directly comparable with the later, general question. Trust in public health agencies, for example, partly reflected how people judged the pandemic response. The page therefore never joins the two into one line: the COVID-19 wording is drawn as a dashed line, the current wording as a solid line, and a marker shows where the wording changed. In June to August 2022 (W23) the two wordings were asked side by side, each to about half of the sample, so that survey shows how much the wording itself moves the answers; the next survey (W24) used the COVID-19 wording only. For a survey period from before June 2022, the COVID-19 wording is the only one there is.