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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in controlling crime?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany50.8%
2 Canada33.0%
3 Australia32.9%
4 France 29.1%
5 United States22.2%
6 Japan18.3%
7 Republic of Korea16.8%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.097822 X +5.981
Correlation coefficient (r)0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 31630.947796 X +41332.792
Correlation coefficient (r)0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.657995 X +82.671
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.439866 X +1.055
Correlation coefficient (r)0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -27.272434 X +20.401
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.738
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.545