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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in dealing with threats to [Countryfs] security?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany63.3%
2 Australia61.8%
3 France 53.2%
4 United States46.8%
5 United Kingdom42.1%
6 Sweden38.3%
7 Canada37.1%
8 Japan19.3%
9 Republic of Korea16.7%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.554094 X +6.037
Correlation coefficient (r)0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 48944.630878 X +29990.736
Correlation coefficient (r)0.568
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.323

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.558400 X +84.249
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.455809 X +0.892
Correlation coefficient (r)0.795
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.632

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -15.518289 X +18.380
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.615
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.378