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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
3 Germany55.7%
4 United Kingdom53.1%
5 United States45.1%
6 France 43.2%
7 Japan38.0%
8 Italy26.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.899956 X +5.703
Correlation coefficient (r)0.725
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.526

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 64275.208584 X +22262.601
Correlation coefficient (r)0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -8.534117 X +85.268
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.081538 X +1.027
Correlation coefficient (r)0.522
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.272

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 7.326784 X +6.121
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045