Trust in institutions (parliament / police / judges)
Known criticisms of this statistic
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CBS's own analysis shows the figure moves with fieldwork timing relative to political events: in 2025, trust in parliament was 39–40% in the first two quarters and 35% in the quarter around the parliamentary elections. An annual average partly reflects when in the year people happened to be asked.
— CBS, Vertrouwen in de politiek 2016–2025 (2026) · CBS: Vertrouwen in de politiek 2016–2025, resultaten
During 2020–21 the survey's in-person component was impossible because of COVID; CBS compensated by adjusting the weighting with time-series models. Those years therefore carry an extra modelled correction that other years do not.
— CBS (its own methods description), 2026 · CBS: Vertrouwen in de politiek 2016–2025, data en methode
Source & method
| Source | CBS 85533NED |
|---|---|
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 (CBS) |
| Trend method | OLS over last 8 annual observations, 5% significance (MBW convention) |
| Revisions | None recorded since 2026-07-07. Every retrieval is stored append-only; when the source restates history, the old and new values become comparable here. |
Raw snapshot (JSON) · every observation keeps its retrieval timestamp and revision history in the public database.
Data table — Trust in parliament (Netherlands)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 31.3 |
| 2023 | 29.0 |
| 2022 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 42.3 |
| 2020 | 53.2 |
| 2019 | 40.0 |
| 2018 | 42.0 |
| 2017 | 40.8 |
| 2016 | 36.8 |
| 2015 | 34.4 |
| 2014 | 34.6 |
| 2013 | 31.5 |
| 2012 | 36.3 |