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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in controlling crime?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Syrian Arab Republic53.1%
2 Germany50.8%
3 Finland43.4%
4 Philippines37.8%
5 Uruguay35.4%
6 Canada33.0%
7 Australia32.9%
8 Spain31.7%
9 Denmark30.5%
10 Poland30.2%
11 France29.1%
12 Dominican Republic28.7%
13 New Zealand26.3%
14 Uzbekistan25.6%
15 Tajikistan22.5%
16 United States22.2%
17 Ireland21.6%
18 Latvia20.4%
19 Slovenia19.7%
20 Japan 18.3%
21 Portugal18.1%
22 Netherlands17.9%
23 Czech Republic17.7%
23 Norway17.7%
25 Hungary17.0%
26 Republic of Korea16.8%
27 Viet Nam16.4%
28 South Africa13.8%
29 Israel12.3%
30 Switzerland12.2%
31 Russian Federation11.7%
32 Croatia10.1%
33 Chile8.7%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.771567 X +6.102
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 15279.911786 X +33942.696
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.922990 X +77.669
Correlation coefficient (r)0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.642781 X +1.651
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -14.895577 X +14.187
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104