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Question: How much confidence do you have in business and industry?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States80.7%
2 United Kingdom78.2%
3 Australia75.8%
4 Canada75.0%
5 Sweden71.3%
6 Germany69.4%
7 Italy60.8%
8 Japan43.6%
9 France 33.4%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.342281 X +5.844
Correlation coefficient (r)0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 57581.650276 X +13132.526
Correlation coefficient (r)0.678
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.460

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.801595 X +86.279
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.472
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.223

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.042330 X +1.526
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.882368 X +8.752
Correlation coefficient (r)0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010