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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway78.7%
2 Sweden67.4%
3 Denmark66.0%
4 Netherlands65.2%
5 Switzerland64.2%
6 New Zealand56.1%
7 Canada55.6%
8 Australia54.4%
9 Austria53.0%
10 United States49.8%
11 Czech Republic49.6%
12 United Kingdom49.4%
13 Ireland44.5%
14 Germany42.5%
15 France38.5%
15 Spain38.5%
17 Hungary36.4%
18 Japan 34.3%
19 Israel28.6%
20 Philippines27.8%
21 Russian Federation23.4%
22 Bulgaria23.1%
22 Poland23.1%
24 Latvia21.5%
25 Portugal21.1%
26 Italy19.0%
27 Cyprus16.6%
28 Slovakia16.5%
29 Slovenia16.3%
30 Chile16.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.187228 X +5.746
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 109382.241059 X -27.240
Correlation coefficient (r)0.759
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.576

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 11.170777 X +75.059
Correlation coefficient (r)0.470
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.221

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.005389 X +1.638
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.138145 X +8.663
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010