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Question: Thinking of the public service in the country, how committed is it to serve the people?
Choices: "Very committed" "Somewhat committed" "Not very committed" "Not at all committed"
Data: % of "Very committed" "Somewhat committed"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States75.4%
2 Canada69.9%
3 United Kingdom68.9%
4 Australia64.1%
5 Germany62.5%
6 France 56.1%
7 Sweden55.0%
8 Republic of Korea39.1%
9 Japan17.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.600810 X +5.787
Correlation coefficient (r)0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 59131.957586 X +17170.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.750
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.562

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.969684 X +86.979
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.669
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.448

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.928917 X +0.980
Correlation coefficient (r)0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.991978 X +16.933
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151