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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Germany58.5%
4 United Kingdom56.4%
5 United States40.9%
6 France 40.5%
7 Japan35.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.884529 X +5.700
Correlation coefficient (r)0.677
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.458

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 13252.195460 X +46519.884
Correlation coefficient (r)0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -3.106894 X +82.718
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.071056 X +1.517
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -22.774250 X +20.850
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.777
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.604