{"id":1208018,"name":"Interpersonal Trust (%)","unit":"%","description":"Share of survey respondents responding to the question \"Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?\" Available replies are \"Can trust\", \"Can't be too careful\", \"Depends\", \"Don't know\" and \"No answer\".","createdAt":"2026-03-10T10:33:52.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-11T09:16:59.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"1972-2018","datasetId":7741,"shortUnit":"%","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"interpersonal_trust__pct","catalogPath":"grapher/happiness/2022-03-07/interpersonal_trust__general_social_survey__gss/interpersonal_trust__general_social_survey__gss#interpersonal_trust__pct","type":"float","dataChecksum":"16128284731718705556","metadataChecksum":"-3484410564227263539","datasetName":"Interpersonal Trust - General Social Survey (GSS)","datasetVersion":"2022-03-07","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"%","shortUnit":"%","numDecimalPlaces":1},"schemaVersion":2,"presentation":{},"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":1972},{"id":1973},{"id":1975},{"id":1976},{"id":1978},{"id":1980},{"id":1983},{"id":1984},{"id":1986},{"id":1987},{"id":1988},{"id":1989},{"id":1990},{"id":1991},{"id":1993},{"id":1994},{"id":1996},{"id":1998},{"id":2000},{"id":2002},{"id":2004},{"id":2006},{"id":2008},{"id":2010},{"id":2012},{"id":2014},{"id":2016},{"id":2018}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":13,"name":"United States","code":"USA"}]}},"origins":[{"id":14469,"title":"General Social Survey","description":"The General Social Survey (GSS) is a project of the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, with principal funding from the National Science Foundation.\n\nExtracted from the GSS Data Explorer\nVariable \"trust\" (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/441/vshow)\n-> Tabulate\nColumn: Trust (Can people be trusted)\nRow: Year (GSS year for this respondent)\nWeight var: WTSSCOMP\nSample design: Simple Random Sample\nExclude missing: Yes\nNote: as of 7 Mar 2022 there is a typo in the values on the GSS website - we think that \"Can't trust\" actually mean \"Can trust\" and is the positive response, while \"Can't be too careful\" is the negative response.","producer":"NORC at the University of Chicago","citationFull":"Davern, Michael; Bautista, Rene; Freese, Jeremy; Morgan, Stephen L.; and Tom W. Smith. General Social Surveys, 1972-2021 Cross-section [machine-readable data file, 68,846 cases]. Principal Investigator, Michael Davern; Co-Principal Investigators, Rene Bautista, Jeremy Freese, Stephen L. Morgan, and Tom W. Smith; Sponsored by National Science Foundation. – NORC ed. – Chicago: NORC, 2021: NORC at the University of Chicago [producer and distributor]. Data accessed from the GSS Data Explorer website at gssdataexplorer.norc.org.","attributionShort":"GSS","urlMain":"https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/441/vshow","dateAccessed":"2022-03-07","datePublished":"2021"}]}