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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in controlling crime?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany50.8%
2 Finland43.4%
3 Canada33.0%
4 Australia32.9%
5 Spain31.7%
6 Denmark30.5%
7 Poland30.2%
8 France29.1%
9 New Zealand26.3%
10 United States22.2%
11 Ireland21.6%
12 Latvia20.4%
13 Slovenia19.7%
14 Japan 18.3%
15 Portugal18.1%
16 Netherlands17.9%
17 Czech Republic17.7%
17 Norway17.7%
19 Hungary17.0%
20 Republic of Korea16.8%
21 Israel12.3%
22 Switzerland12.2%
23 Chile8.7%

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 = 1.388949 X +6.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 8999.552133 X +46480.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 3.175723 X +79.977
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.626943 X +1.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.533742 X +11.168
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005