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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:
2 Canada56.9%
4 United States48.2%
5 Germany48.0%
6 United Kingdom46.8%
8 France 36.6%
9 Japan32.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.883498 X +5.335
Correlation coefficient (r)0.875
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.766

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 99221.834723 X +8350.785
Correlation coefficient (r)0.558
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.311

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -13.826131 X +87.477
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.558
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.311

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.213546 X +1.609
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -4.411928 X +12.292
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020