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Question: How much confidence do you have in parliament?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany64.6%
4 United States58.9%
5 France 52.5%
6 Italy45.0%
6 United Kingdom45.0%
9 Japan26.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.765828 X +5.670
Correlation coefficient (r)0.839
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.704

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 85366.896599 X +8620.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -12.950525 X +87.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.747
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.558

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.927212 X +1.046
Correlation coefficient (r)0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.085125 X +9.272
Correlation coefficient (r)0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000