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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 Australia78.6%
2 United States77.0%
3 Sweden74.8%
4 Germany71.6%
5 United Kingdom71.1%
6 Republic of Korea70.9%
7 Japan55.7%
8 Italy55.3%
9 France 36.6%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.363655 X +5.731
Correlation coefficient (r)0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 63821.579288 X +6300.060
Correlation coefficient (r)0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.480406 X +85.536
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.311
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.121831 X +1.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 10.902347 X +4.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095