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Question: In your opinion, about how many public officials are involved in corruption?
Choices: "Almost none" "A few" "Some" "Quite a lot" "Almost all"
Data: % of "Quite a lot" "Almost all"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark84.6%
2 Syrian Arab Republic53.1%
3 New Zealand52.2%
4 Tajikistan51.1%
5 Finland49.6%
6 Ireland45.7%
7 Australia40.7%
8 Switzerland38.8%
9 Norway38.1%
10 United States36.9%
11 Canada36.1%
12 Japan 33.2%
13 Germany31.2%
14 Netherlands30.2%
15 Uruguay26.9%
16 Republic of Korea25.0%
17 France24.5%
18 Hungary23.4%
19 Uzbekistan22.0%
20 Spain21.3%
21 Chile19.8%
22 South Africa19.6%
23 Viet Nam15.4%
24 Czech Republic14.5%
25 Slovenia14.3%
26 Philippines13.8%
27 Dominican Republic12.4%
28 Portugal11.3%
29 Latvia11.0%
30 Israel10.1%
31 Poland9.4%
32 Croatia8.3%
33 Russian Federation2.3%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.790401 X +6.029
Correlation coefficient (r)0.504
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.254

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 94392.473045 X +11754.218
Correlation coefficient (r)0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 10.258712 X +75.013
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.104844 X +1.778
Correlation coefficient (r)0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.395716 X +12.075
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034