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DECEMBER 26, 2017
Nurses Keep Healthy Lead as Most Honest,
Ethical Profession
BY MEGAN BRENAN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Nurses outpace 21 other professions on honesty and ethics rating
Clergy have declined to lowest historical positive rating of 42%
Largest partisan gaps on police officers, newspaper reporters
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the 16 consecutive year, Americans’ ratings of the honesty
and ethical standards of 22 occupations finds nurses at the top of the list. More than
eight in 10 (82%) Americans describe nurses’ ethics as “very high” or “high.” In contrast,
about six in 10 Americans rate members of Congress (60%) and lobbyists (58%) as “very
low” or “low” when it comes to honesty and ethical standards.
Americans’ Ratings of Honesty and Ethical Standards in Professions
Please tell me how you would rate the honesty and ethical standards of people in these different fields —
very high, high, average, low, or very low?
Very high/High Average Very low/Low
% % %
Nurses 82 16 2
Military officers 71 24 3
Grade school teachers 66 27 5
Medical doctors 65 31 4
Pharmacists 62 32 6
Police officers 56 32 12
Day care providers 46 43 7
Judges 43 41 15
Clergy 42 41 13
Auto mechanics 32 53 14
Nursing home operators 26 48 22
Bankers 25 54 21
Newspaper reporters 25 39 35
Local officeholders 24 53 20
TV reporters 23 39 37
State officeholders 19 47 33
Lawyers 18 53 28
Business executives 16 54 28
Advertising practitioners 12 49 34
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Very high/High Average Very low/Low
% % %
Members of Congress 11 29 60
Car salespeople 10 48 39
Lobbyists 8 31 58
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Nurses have surpassed all other professions every year but one since Gallup first asked
about them in 1999. In 2001, Gallup included firefighters on the list after the 9/11
terrorist attacks, and 90% of the public rated their honesty and ethical standards as
“high” or “very high.”
Overall, a majority of Americans in the Dec. 4-11 poll rated six professions as “high” or
“very high” for honesty and ethical standards. In addition to nurses, that list includes
military officers, grade school teachers, medical doctors, police officers and
pharmacists. The honesty rating of pharmacists, although still high on an absolute basis,
dropped five points since last year and is at its lowest point since 1994, possibly
reflecting the current nationwide opioid crisis.
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While only members of Congress and lobbyists received majority negative ratings, the
remaining 14 occupations were rated “average” for their honesty and ethical standards
by pluralities or majorities ranging from 39% to 54%. Those garnering majority “average”
marks for honesty and ethical standards are lawyers, local officeholders, bankers and
auto mechanics. The public is divided between positive and average honesty rankings
for both judges and members of the clergy — two occupations that are looked to as
requiring the utmost honesty and ethical standards.
Clergy Ethical Rating Still Declining
Gallup has measured Americans’ views on the honesty and ethics of the clergy 33 times
dating back to 1977. Although the overall average positive rating is 55%, it has fallen
below that level since 2009. This year marks the lowest rating to date, with 42% saying
the clergy has “very high” or “high” honesty and ethical standards. The historical high of
67% occurred in 1985.
Views of the honesty and ethics of the clergy dropped precipitously in 2002 amid the
sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. While positive ratings of the clergy’s
honesty and integrity rebounded somewhat in the next few years, they fell to 50% in
2009 and have been steadily declining since then.
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Party Differences in Views of Professions
In this age of extreme political polarization, it is perhaps not surprising that partisans
have sharply different opinions of some of the professions Gallup tested. Yet, the
professions with the largest gaps between Republican and Democratic opinions have
shown similar partisan differences in the past.
Party Differences in Honesty and Ethics Ratings of Professions
% Very high/High ranked by Republican-Democratic difference
Republican Independent Democrat Republican/Democratic difference
% % % %
Police officers 80 47 48 +32
Military officers 86 69 60 +26
Clergy 59 35 41 +18
Pharmacists 70 60 58 +12
Judges 54 38 42 +12
TV reporters 12 19 40 -28
Newspaper reporters 12 19 46 -34
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Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to rate police officers, military
officers, clergy, pharmacists and judges “very high” or “high” on honesty and ethics,
which hasn’t changed much in recent years. Republicans are more conservative and
more religious than Democrats which likely contributes to their ethics ratings.
For their part, Democrats consider television and newspaper reporters much more
honest than do Republicans, although Democrats’ honesty ratings for these professions
fall below the 50% mark. This partisan divide reinforces recent Gallup findings that
Democrats’ trust in the media is much higher than that of Republicans’.
While Gallup did not measure attitudes about newspaper and television reporters last
year, the very high/high reading for “journalists” showed a 15-point gap between
Republicans and Democrats last year. Looking at “reporters” this year, that gap is roughly
double what it was for “journalists” last year.
Yet, in a rare show of unity, roughly six in 10 Republicans, independents and Democrats
alike rate the honesty of members of Congress lower than all other professions tested.
Likewise, lobbyists are universally viewed as having very low or low ethics by roughly the
same percentages as members of Congress.
Bottom Line
Three of the professions rated highest for honesty and ethical standards are in the
healthcare field – nurses, medical doctors and pharmacists – a trend that has been the
case in recent years. Yet, pharmacists, who were at the top of the list of honest
professions for years, have taken a slight downturn in the last year as the U.S. opioid
epidemic has become increasingly problematic, leading President Donald Trump to
declare it a public health emergency. While the clergy are not at the bottom of the list of
professions, this year’s ratings represent a new low for a profession with image problems
in recent years.
SURVEY METHODS
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Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 4-11, 2017, with a
random sample of 1,049 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of
Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is
±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include
computed design effects for weighting.
Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and
30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline
and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
View survey methodology, complete question responses and trends.
Learn more about how the Gallup Poll Social Series works.
RELEASE DATE: December 26, 2017
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