Overview
- The index was essentially flat versus November (-0.1%), indicating that November’s rebound did not restore levels seen a year earlier.
- Component scores were uneven: capacity to solve problems reached 2.89 and honesty of officials 2.79, while efficiency held at 2.32 and both general evaluation (2.28) and concern for the public interest (2.04) remained the weakest.
- Confidence gaps persisted across groups, with higher readings among men (2.66), 18–29-year-olds (2.92), and those with tertiary or university education (2.61).
- By region, the Interior led at 2.64 as CABA jumped 22.7% to 2.49, moving ahead of Greater Buenos Aires at 2.10.
- Expectations and security experiences showed stark splits, with 4.25 among optimists versus 0.40 among pessimists and 2.66 for non-victims of crime versus 1.77 for victims; the December result remains above December 2017 (+4.3%) and December 2021 (+73.2%), based on a Poliarquía phone survey of 1,000 adults conducted December 1–15 (SE ±0.07).