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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand84.1%
2 Belgium83.8%
3 Denmark81.0%
4 Netherlands80.9%
5 Switzerland79.9%
6 Norway79.5%
7 Australia78.6%
8 United States77.0%
9 Sweden74.8%
10 Poland73.9%
11 Latvia73.4%
12 Israel72.9%
13 Finland72.0%
14 Germany71.6%
15 Spain71.1%
15 United Kingdom71.1%
17 Republic of Korea70.9%
18 Austria70.7%
19 Slovenia68.2%
20 Ireland66.4%
21 Slovakia63.9%
22 Japan55.7%
23 Italy55.3%
24 Chile 54.9%
25 Mexico53.5%
26 Portugal50.2%
27 Turkiye45.0%
28 Czech Republic43.0%
29 Hungary37.4%
30 France36.6%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.511773 X +5.016
Correlation coefficient (r)0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 104578.197277 X -24814.711
Correlation coefficient (r)0.562
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.316

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 9.396763 X +73.911
Correlation coefficient (r)0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.115823 X +1.680
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 8.113266 X +4.514
Correlation coefficient (r)0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085