2023 GPS: Trust of State Government Officials

In today’s podcast we are going to dive into one aspect of the 2023 Garrity Perception Survey.  Specifically, the level of Trust New Mexico residents have of State Government Officials. 

The Garrity Group helps small businesses to be heard and large organizations to be understood. To help support our mission, we commissioned Albuquerque’s Research & Polling to measure New Mexico adult residents’ perceptions of various types of industries, institutions, people and professions in the state, as well as to determine which sources residents access for news and information.   Research and Polling has conducted all of the previous projects surveys since inception of the Garrity Perception Survey in 2011.

The scientific survey of 400 residents was conducted March 15-April 2, 2023, the survey results have a 95 percent level of confidence and a maximum margin of error of 4.9 percent.

New Mexico residents were asked to rate their trust of 15 people and professions using a five-point scale –  where a score of “five” is complete trust and a score of one is complete distrust. 

 In 2011, 23% trusted state government.

In 2014, trust of state government hit a low of 15%.

And, 10 years later, in 2023, only 24 percent of residents trust state government… so slightly better than in 2011 and 2014… but is “better” still “good” when less than a quarter of New Mexico residents say they trust State Government Officials? 

Matt Grubbs, Investigative Reporter and Executive Producer at KOB-TV joins Tom Garrity to discuss the results related to trust of State Government Officials.

https://www.kob.com/news_team/matt-grubs/

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To sign-up for the full 2023 Garrity Perception Survey visit: https://garritypr.com/research/