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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in dealing with threats to [Countryfs] security?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland76.3%
2 Switzerland67.0%
3 Denmark64.5%
4 Germany 63.3%
5 Australia61.8%
6 France53.2%
7 Norway50.5%
8 Czech Republic50.2%
9 New Zealand49.7%
10 United States46.8%
11 Hungary45.7%
12 Latvia44.7%
13 United Kingdom42.1%
14 Ireland40.7%
15 Slovenia40.1%
16 Sweden38.3%
17 Poland38.2%
18 Canada37.1%
19 Netherlands36.7%
20 Israel35.5%
21 Chile33.4%
22 Spain30.9%
23 Portugal22.8%
24 Japan19.3%
25 Republic of Korea16.7%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.117899 X +5.844
Correlation coefficient (r)0.629
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.396

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 73760.444251 X +17653.812
Correlation coefficient (r)0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.297956 X +81.694
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.365253 X +1.357
Correlation coefficient (r)0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.488608 X +11.589
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011