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DECEMBER 22, 2020
U.S. Ethics Ratings Rise for Medical
Workers and Teachers
BY LYDIA SA AD
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Nurses, doctors and teachers receive their highest ethics ratings to date
Pharmacists’ rating rises in past year to highest in nearly a decade
Ethics rating of police steady at just over 50%
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the end of a year when medical workers have braved
exposure to the coronavirus to provide lifesaving care, Americans have become more
likely to laud the honesty and ethics of nurses, medical doctors and pharmacists. Still,
nurses remain the undisputed leader, as they have been for nearly two decades.
Nurses earn a record 89% very high/high score for their honesty and ethics this
year, four percentage points greater than their prior high, last recorded in 2019.
Medical doctors’ rating has improved even more in the past year, rising 12 points to
77% and exceeding the previous high of 70% found in 2011 and 2012.
Pharmacists’ honesty and ethics rating is up seven points to 71%. While not their
highest rating, it is the highest since 2012, when 75% rated them this positively.
The latest results are based on a Dec. 1-17 Gallup poll in which Americans were asked
to rate the honesty and ethics of 15 different occupational groups as very high, high,
average, low or very low. Gallup first conducted its Honesty and Ethics poll in 1976
and has updated it annually since 1990. A handful of professions have been on the list
every year, while Gallup asks about others periodically.
Nurses have topped Gallup’s Honesty and Ethics list in all but one year since they
were added in 1999. The exception is 2001, when firefighters were measured on a
one-time basis shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and earned the highest
score to date for any profession, 90%. Nurses fell one point shy of that mark this year.
Grade-School Teachers Also Enjoying Increased Respect
After nurses and doctors, grade-school teachers (the only category of teachers
measured) are the next-highest-rated profession, with 75% rating their ethics very
high or high.
Although only one point ahead of their previous high in 2007, it is the first time since
then that grade-school teachers have scored over 70% and represents a nine-point
improvement from their most recent rating in 2017. This may reflect public
appreciation for the risks taken by teachers in going back to school during the
pandemic, as well as their commitment to teaching under unprecedented
circumstances, whether in the classroom or online.
While not in the top tier, nursing home operators are another group that has faced
extraordinary challenges this year during the pandemic. These workers are in eighth
place, with a new high of 36% rating their ethics positively. That is 10 points above
their previous rating in 2017 and four points ahead of their prior high of 32% recorded
in 2013.
Police Officers in Top Five, Members of Congress and
Salespeople Worst-Rated
Police officers rank fifth this year, with 52% rating them highly, similar to their 54%
score in 2019, and making them the only profession aside from the top four to have a
majority of Americans rating their ethics highly.
Members of Congress and car salespeople tie for last, with just 8% rating them
highly, and advertising practitioners are close at 10%. Members of Congress had
received acclaim from 12% of Americans in 2019, their highest in a decade, but even
that small increase was short-lived.
No other profession rated this year experienced much change in its honesty and
ethics score. That includes lawyers, journalists and bankers in the bottom half of the
list and members of clergy and judges in the top half. Judges’ 43% score is identical
to their previous rating in 2017.
Profession Ratings for Having Very High/High Honesty and Ethical Standards
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?
Dec 2-15, 2019 Dec 1-17, 2020 Change
% % pct. pts.
Nurses 85 89 +4
Medical doctors 65 77 +12
Grade-school teachers — 75 —
Pharmacists 64 71 +7
Police officers 54 52 -2
Judges — 43 —
Clergy 40 39 -1
Nursing home operators — 36 —
Bankers 28 29 +1
Journalists 28 28 0
Lawyers 22 21 -1
Business executives 20 17 -3
Advertising practitioners 13 10 -3
Car salespeople 9 8 -1
Members of Congress 12 8 -4
Dashes (–) indicate profession not rated in 2019
GALLUP
While below their high point of 68% in November 2001, today’s 52% rating of the
police is well above their all-time low of 37% recorded in 1977. Their more recent low
was a 48% reading in 2014.
Partisans Share High Respect for Healthcare Workers,
Teachers
Republicans and Democrats are in broad agreement that nurses, doctors, gradeschool teachers and pharmacists have very high or high honesty and ethical
standards, with majorities of both groups considering them such.
The two partisan groups also agree that several other professions — bankers,
business executives, lawyers, advertising practitioners, nursing home operators, car
salespeople and members of Congress — fall short of this standard.
Partisans show notable differences on four of the 15 professions tested this year:
Majorities of Republicans versus fewer than four in 10 Democrats rate police
officers and clergy highly for honesty and ethics.
About half of Democrats versus far fewer Republicans rate judges’ and journalists’
ethics positively.
2020 Honesty and Ethics Ratings, by Party ID
% Very high/High honesty and ethical standards
Republican Independent Democrat
Net difference
(Republican
minus Democrat)
% % % pct. pts.
Police officers 79 48 36 +43
Clergy 54 32 38 +16
Bankers 34 31 25 +9
Business executives 19 20 11 +8
Lawyers 18 25 17 +1
Car salespeople 10 7 10 0
Advertising practitioners 9 12 11 -2
Pharmacists 71 69 75 -4
Nurses 87 89 91 -4
Members of Congress 4 10 8 -4
Medical doctors 70 76 84 -14
Nursing home operators 28 35 43 -15
Judges 37 42 52 -15
Grade-school teachers 65 73 85 -20
Journalists 5 28 48 -43
GALLUP, DEC. 1-17, 2020
This year’s partisan difference on judges — with Democrats holding more favorable
views than Republicans — is a reversal from the previous measurement in 2017, when
more Republicans (54%) than Democrats (42%) rated them highly. While the threeyear gap makes it difficult to pinpoint a reason for the change, it may reflect the
impact of recent rulings against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in its attempts
to overturn the results in the states that decided the election.
Other notable differences are seen by gender, race and age:
Women (81%) are more likely than men (69%) to rate grade-school teachers highly.
A majority of White Americans (59%) versus less than half of non-White Americans
(39%) rate the police highly.
Ratings of nursing home operators are much lower among adults 55 and older
(28%) and 35 to 54 (34%) than among those under age 35 (48%).
By contrast, ratings of police officers are higher among older Americans: 62% of
adults 55 and older and 56% of middle-aged adults rate them positively, versus
35% of the youngest age group.
Ratings of clergy are also higher among older Americans: 50% among those 55
and older and 41% among the middle age group, versus 24% among the youngest
group.
Bottom Line
With the healthcare industry at the forefront of the global war on the coronavirus,
nurses, medical doctors and nursing home operators all have received their highest
ratings in Gallup records for their honesty and ethics, while pharmacists’ already-high
rating is the best in nearly a decade. Teachers, who — in many cases — are interacting
in person with large numbers of students, appear to be enjoying the same surge of
respect.
These findings mirror Gallup’s annual Confidence in Institutions poll conducted in
June and July, which found sharp increases in the percentage of Americans
expressing high confidence in the medical system and public schools. At that time,
less than two months after controversy erupted over the death of George Floyd in
police custody in May, confidence in the police was at an all-time low of 48%. By
contrast, today, the honesty and ethical rating of police officers is about the same as
a year ago. Whether this means the public opinion effects of the Floyd event have
faded, or that police officers as individuals are held less responsible for police
violence than the police as an institution, is not clear.
While partisan conflict has been in high relief this year over the presidential election,
the Honesty and Ethics poll reveals several areas where Republicans and Democrats
agree, most notably in their high regard for medical professionals and teachers.
View complete question responses and trends (PDF download).
Learn more about how the Gallup Poll Social Series works.
SURVEY METHODS
RELEASE DATE: December 22, 2020
SOURCE: Gallup https://news.gallup.com/poll/328136/ethics-ratings-rise-medical-workers-teachers.aspx
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