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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States36.9%
3 Canada36.1%
4 Japan33.2%
5 Germany31.2%
7 France 24.5%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.043260 X +6.265
Correlation coefficient (r)0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 173924.472711 X -2773.944
Correlation coefficient (r)0.491
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.241

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -22.146137 X +88.291
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.453
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.205

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.335514 X +2.258
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.517
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.267

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 28.737961 X +1.697
Correlation coefficient (r)0.587
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.345