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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden73.7%
2 Australia63.8%
3 Japan60.7%
4 United States48.8%
5 United Kingdom48.7%
6 Germany47.6%
7 Republic of Korea46.2%
8 France 42.4%

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 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.126219 X +5.517
Correlation coefficient (r)0.521
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.271

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 34103.134184 X +31611.570
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 9.851510 X +76.506
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.470729 X +1.260
Correlation coefficient (r)0.158
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.570484 X +12.349
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000