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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden67.4%
2 Canada55.6%
3 Australia54.4%
4 United States49.8%
5 United Kingdom49.4%
6 Germany42.5%
7 France 38.5%
8 Japan34.3%
9 Italy19.0%

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 = 2.359643 X +5.643
Correlation coefficient (r)0.878
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.771

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 67886.077516 X +19771.567
Correlation coefficient (r)0.682
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.465

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.045356 X +82.767
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.756855 X +1.208
Correlation coefficient (r)0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 13.070797 X +4.015
Correlation coefficient (r)0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348