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Question: In your opinion, about how many public officials are involved in corruption?
Choices: "Almost none" "A few" "Some" "Quite a lot" "Almost all"
Data: % of "Quite a lot" "Almost all"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark84.6%
2 New Zealand52.2%
3 Finland 49.6%
4 Ireland45.7%
5 Australia40.7%
6 Switzerland38.8%
7 Norway38.1%
8 United States36.9%
9 Canada36.1%
10 Japan33.2%
11 Germany31.2%
12 Netherlands30.2%
13 Republic of Korea25.0%
14 France24.5%
15 Hungary23.4%
16 Spain21.3%
17 Chile19.8%
18 Czech Republic14.5%
19 Slovenia14.3%
20 Portugal11.3%
21 Latvia11.0%
22 Israel10.1%
23 Poland9.4%

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 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 1.692904 X +6.240
Correlation coefficient (r)0.587
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.345

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 90475.511354 X +21016.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 6.688575 X +78.694
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.145812 X +1.636
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.610311 X +10.750
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001