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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 Sweden69.4%
2 Australia55.7%
3 United Kingdom48.5%
4 United States44.3%
5 Germany43.1%
6 Republic of Korea40.3%
7 Japan38.2%
8 France 35.5%
9 Italy19.8%

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 = 2.427842 X +5.562
Correlation coefficient (r)0.778
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.605

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 61386.414367 X +21323.937
Correlation coefficient (r)0.558
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.311

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.155146 X +82.001
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.917835 X +1.082
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 10.012818 X +6.792
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080