Trust Atlas

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Trust Atlas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

You are free to share and adapt this work for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you provide attribution and distribute derivatives under the same license.

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Data Usage Note

Trust Atlas uses only derived aggregate statistics, not raw microdata.

We process survey microdata locally to compute country-level trust percentages (e.g., “65% of respondents trust others”). The raw survey responses are never stored in our database or served via our API.

This approach is similar to citing aggregate findings in academic publications and is generally permitted under source terms of use. However, users should still cite the original data sources when using Trust Atlas data.

How to Cite Trust Atlas

When using Trust Atlas data, please cite:

Trust Atlas. (2025). Trust Atlas: Open Data for Measuring Trust. Trust Revolution. https://trustatlas.org. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

For specific data sources, please also cite the original source using their required format (see below).

Data Source Credits

Survey Sources (WVS Family)

World Values Survey (WVS)

Custom Terms (non-commercial academic use)Non-commercial

Citation: World Values Survey: Round Seven - Country-Pooled Datafile Version X.X. Madrid, Spain & Vienna, Austria: JD Systems Institute & WVSA Secretariat. doi:10.14281/18241.20

European Values Study (EVS)

Custom Terms (non-commercial academic use)Non-commercial

Citation: European Values Study [Year]: Integrated Dataset (EVS [Year]). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA7500 Data file Version X.X.X, doi:10.4232/1.13511

Same methodology as WVS (A165 question). Used for interpersonal trust only.

General Social Survey (GSS)

Public DomainCommercial OK

Citation: Davern, Michael, et al.; General Social Survey 1972-2024. [Machine-readable data file]. NORC ed. Chicago.

Project of NORC at University of Chicago with NSF funding

American National Election Studies (ANES)

CC0 (Public Domain)Commercial OK

Citation: American National Election Studies. [Year]. ANES [Year] Time Series Study. www.electionstudies.org

Canadian Election Study (CES)

Academic UseNon-commercial

Citation: Stephenson, Laura B; Harell, Allison; Rubenson, Daniel; Loewen, Peter John. [Year] Canadian Election Study. Harvard Dataverse.

Media Trust Sources

Reuters Institute Digital News Report

CC BY (reports and data)Commercial OK

Citation: Newman, N., et al. ([Year]). Reuters Institute Digital News Report. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Primary source (40% weight). Data starts 2015 when the standardized "trust most news" question was introduced.

Standard Eurobarometer

Scientific research/trainingNon-commercial

Citation: European Commission, Brussels ([Year]): Eurobarometer [XX.X]. GESIS Data Archive.

Primary EU source (40% weight). QA6_1: Trust in Media. Covers 32 EU member and candidate countries.

World Values Survey (Media)

Custom Terms (non-commercial academic use)Non-commercial

Citation: World Values Survey: Round Seven - Country-Pooled Datafile. Madrid, Spain & Vienna, Austria: JD Systems Institute & WVSA Secretariat.

Supplementary source (20% weight). E069_07/08: Confidence in the press/television. Provides historical depth back to 1981.

Governance Sources

Transparency International CPI

CC BY 4.0 (datasets)Commercial OK

Citation: Corruption Perceptions Index [Year] by Transparency International is licensed under CC BY 4.0

World Bank WGI

CC BY 4.0Commercial OK

Citation: Worldwide Governance Indicators, [Year] Revision, World Bank (www.govindicators.org)

V-Dem

CC BY-SA 4.0Commercial OK

Citation: Coppedge, Michael, et al. [Year]. "V-Dem Dataset v[XX]" Varieties of Democracy Project.

ShareAlike license requires derived works use same license

World Justice Project

Non-commercialNon-commercial

Citation: World Justice Project. Rule of Law Index [Year]. Washington, DC: World Justice Project.

Freedom House

Non-commercial with citationNon-commercial

Citation: Freedom House. Freedom in the World [Year]. Washington, DC: Freedom House.

Regional Surveys

European Social Survey (ESS)

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Non-commercial

Citation: ESS ERIC ([Year]) ESS[Round] - integrated file [Data set]. Sikt.

Non-commercial only; ShareAlike for derivatives

Afrobarometer

Non-commercial with attributionNon-commercial

Citation: Afrobarometer Data, [Country(ies)], [Round(s)], [Year(s)], available at http://www.afrobarometer.org

Latinobarómetro

Non-commercial academic useNon-commercial

Citation: Latinobarómetro [Year]. Latinobarómetro Corporation. www.latinobarometro.org

Asian Barometer

Academic use onlyNon-commercial

Citation: Asian Barometer Project ([Years]), co-directed by Professors Fu Hu and Yun-han Chu.

Arab Barometer

Non-commercial with attributionNon-commercial

Citation: Arab Barometer: Public Opinion Survey. Princeton University.

LAPOP AmericasBarometer

Research purposes onlyNon-commercial

Citation: Data from Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University.

LAPOP takes no responsibility for interpretations

European Data

Eurobarometer (GESIS)

Scientific research/trainingNon-commercial

Citation: European Commission, Brussels ([Year]): Eurobarometer [XX.X]. GESIS Data Archive.

EU-SILC (Eurostat)

CC BY 4.0 (aggregates)Commercial OK

Citation: Source: Eurostat, EU-SILC, accessed on [date]

EBRD Life in Transition Survey

Non-commercialNon-commercial

Citation: EBRD Life in Transition Survey [Year]. London: EBRD.

CRRC Caucasus Barometer

Free with citationCommercial OK

Citation: Caucasus Research Resource Centers. [Year] "Caucasus Barometer". caucasusbarometer.org

Programmatic Access

Source metadata is also available via our API:

GET /sources — Returns all source metadata including licenses and citations

Last updated January 2026 — Compliance verified for 21 data sources