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POLL ANALYSES June 28, 2002
Americans' Confidence in Military, Presidency Up; Big Business, Organized Religion Drop Confidence in military is 20 percentage points higher than confidence in any other institution
by Frank Newport
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' confidence in organized religion and big business has fallen significantly over the last year, while their confidence in the military and the presidency has increased. Overall, the military, the police, the presidency, the U.S. Supreme Court and banks are the five institutions out of the 16 tested in which the American people have the highest degree of confidence. The institutions that have earned the least amount of confidence from Americans include HMOs, Wall Street, big business, organized labor and the criminal justice system.
Gallup has asked Americans to rate their confidence in selected institutions since 1973. Here are the basic results for this year's measures, based on surveying conducted June 21-23:
Now I am going to read you a list of institutions in American society. Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in each one -- a great deal, quite a lot, some, or very little? First, ... Next, [RANDOM ORDER].
Great/ Great Quite Very no
quite deal a lot Some little none opin The military 79 43 36 16 5 * * The police 59 28 31 31 9 1 * The presidency 58 29 29 29 11 1 1 U.S. Supreme Court 50 22 28 35 13 * 2 Banks 47 17 30 39 12 1 1 Church/organized re 45 26 19 32 18 3 2 The medical system 38 15 23 42 18 1 1 The public schools 38 12 26 41 18 2 1 Television news 35 14 21 43 19 2 1 Newspapers 35 12 23 47 16 1 1 Congress 29 9 20 53 16 1 1 Criminal justice sy 27 9 18 46 24 2 1 Organized labor 26 11 15 48 21 2 3 Big business 20 7 13 47 29 3 1 Wall Street 19 8 11 52 21 3 5 HMOs 13 5 8 36 42 5 4
* Less than 0.5%
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