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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:
3 United Kingdom48.5%
4 United States44.3%
5 Germany43.1%
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 data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.548894 X +5.939
Correlation coefficient (r)0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 82350.252686 X +18779.920
Correlation coefficient (r)0.495
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.245

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -9.823575 X +85.306
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.084146 X +1.084
Correlation coefficient (r)0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 17.988450 X +2.436
Correlation coefficient (r)0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246