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Question: How widespread do you think corruption is in the public service in the country?
Choices: "Hardly anyone is involved" "A small number of people are involved" "A moderate number of people are involved" "A lot of people are involved" "Almost everyone is involved"
Data: % of "Hardly anyone is involved" "A small number of people are involved"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark73.1%
2 Finland67.4%
3 Netherlands65.4%
4 New Zealand65.3%
5 United States59.6%
6 Norway59.4%
7 Australia53.9%
8 Ireland47.2%
9 Canada46.5%
10 Switzerland43.0%
11 France38.9%
12 Spain38.3%
13 Austria38.2%
14 Belgium37.1%
15 Germany27.0%
16 Hungary22.6%
17 Chile20.8%
18 Republic of Korea20.4%
19 Japan 19.1%
20 Latvia18.1%
21 Czech Republic12.9%
22 Portugal12.1%
23 Israel11.2%
24 Slovakia10.4%
25 Slovenia10.3%
26 Mexico9.5%
27 Poland4.8%

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

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.537655 X +6.215
Correlation coefficient (r)0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 85863.886309 X +16751.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 7.836516 X +77.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.448
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.201

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.108713 X +1.636
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.820011 X +10.157
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003