THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Trust the Federal Government  1958-2008


                           '58  '60  '62  '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04  '08 
 
  None of the Time (vol.)    0   **   **    0    2    0    0    1    1    1    4    4    3    1    2    2    2    2    3    1    1    1    0    1    2 
         Some of the Time   23   **   **   22   28   36   44   44   61   62   64   69   62   53   57   56   69   68   74   66   58   55   44   52   68 
         Most of the Time   57   **   **   62   48   54   47   48   34   30   27   23   31   40   35   36   25   26   19   30   36   40   51   43   25 
        Just About Always   16   **   **   14   17    7    6    5    2    3    2    2    2    4    3    4    3    3    2    3    4    4    5    4    5 
      Don't Know, Depends    4   **   **    1    4    2    2    2    2    3    3    2    3    2    2    1    1    1    1    0    1    1    0    0    0
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                       N  1774           1445 1285 1337 1497 2279 2499 2859 2288 1606 1401 1921 1081 1768 1963 2247 1769 1496 1278 1541 1312 1061 1059  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 5A.1
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     ""How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in
     Washington to do what is right-- just about always, most of the time
     or only some of the time?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0604 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  05AUG10