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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark77.0%
2 Norway73.4%
3 Sweden65.8%
4 Switzerland65.1%
5 Austria 59.9%
6 Netherlands57.7%
7 New Zealand57.0%
8 Canada56.9%
9 Finland56.4%
10 Australia54.8%
11 Czech Republic50.2%
12 Ireland50.1%
13 United States48.2%
14 Germany48.0%
14 Mexico48.0%
16 Hungary46.9%
17 Spain46.8%
17 United Kingdom46.8%
19 Belgium37.9%
20 Israel37.2%
21 Republic of Korea36.7%
22 France36.6%
23 Slovakia34.0%
24 Portugal33.0%
25 Japan32.3%
26 Slovenia32.1%
27 Latvia21.9%
28 Poland16.1%
29 Chile12.3%

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 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 2.111043 X +5.792
Correlation coefficient (r)0.701
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.491

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 110146.631690 X -4149.812
Correlation coefficient (r)0.682
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.465

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 8.526901 X +76.366
Correlation coefficient (r)0.368
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.145419 X +1.532
Correlation coefficient (r)0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -2.726881 X +11.643
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015