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Question: How successful do you think the government 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:
15 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia77.3%
2 United Kingdom76.3%
3 Switzerland73.4%
4 Denmark68.3%
5 Finland60.0%
6 New Zealand55.9%
7 Czech Republic51.3%
8 Latvia46.3%
9 Turkiye41.3%
10 Sweden39.7%
11 France38.9%
12 Lithuania35.7%
13 Japan 31.3%
14 Iceland28.5%
15 Republic of Korea26.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 23 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 1.538252 X +6.008
Correlation coefficient (r)0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 60243.550000 X +16143.077
Correlation coefficient (r)0.473
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.224

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 2.397279 X +79.527
Correlation coefficient (r)0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.431532 X +1.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -11.791251 X +17.494
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.431
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.186