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Question: How much confidence do you have in business and industry?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands85.6%
2 Denmark83.1%
3 United States80.7%
4 New Zealand80.0%
5 Ireland79.5%
6 United Kingdom78.2%
7 Israel77.3%
8 Australia75.8%
9 Canada75.0%
10 Austria73.9%
11 Norway72.7%
12 Sweden71.3%
13 Germany69.4%
14 Spain68.8%
15 Slovenia66.9%
16 Hungary64.3%
17 Chile 62.9%
18 Switzerland62.4%
19 Italy60.8%
20 Poland60.2%
21 Latvia51.3%
22 Portugal50.4%
23 Japan43.6%
24 Slovakia40.0%
25 Czech Republic38.4%
26 France33.4%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 1.900931 X +5.491
Correlation coefficient (r)0.629
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.396

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 94225.911434 X -13970.878
Correlation coefficient (r)0.538
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.289

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 6.339337 X +76.383
Correlation coefficient (r)0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 0.330236 X +1.396
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -1.758081 X +10.833
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008