Confidence in institutions - full trend

Question: How much confidence do you have in each of the institutions in U.S. society?
Percent saying "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence
Institution 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 3/91 10/91 1993 1994 1995 1996
Military 53 58 61 63 61 58 63 68 85 69 68 64 64 66
Police - - - - - - - - - - 52 54 58 60
Church/religion 62 64 66 57 61 59 52 56 59 56 53 54 57 57
Sup. Court 42 51 56 54 52 56 46 47 48 39 44 42 44 45
Banks 51 51 51 49 51 49 42 36 32 30 37 35 43 44
Medical - - - - - - - - - - 34 36 41 42
Presidency - - - - - - - - 72 50 43 38 45 39
Public schools 39 47 48 49 50 49 43 45 44 35 39 34 40 38
TV news - - - - - - - - - - 46 35 33 36
Newspapers 38 34 35 37 31 35 - 39 32 32 31 29 30 32
Labor 26 30 28 29 26 26 - 27 25 22 26 26 26 25
Big business 26 29 31 28 - 25 - 25 26 22 22 26 21 24
Congress 28 29 31 28 - 25 - 25 26 22 22 26 21 20
Justice system - - - - - - - - - - 17 15 20 19
Source: Latest USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll results are based on interviews with 1,019 national adults, conducted May 28-29, 1996. Margin of error: 3 percentage points.

- =Not asked