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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway78.7%
2 Sweden67.4%
3 Denmark66.0%
4 Netherlands65.2%
5 Switzerland64.2%
6 New Zealand56.1%
7 Canada55.6%
8 Australia54.4%
9 Austria53.0%
10 United States49.8%
11 Czech Republic49.6%
12 United Kingdom49.4%
13 Ireland44.5%
14 Germany42.5%
15 France38.5%
15 Spain38.5%
17 Hungary36.4%
18 Japan 34.3%
19 Israel28.6%
20 Poland23.1%
21 Latvia21.5%
22 Portugal21.1%
23 Italy19.0%
24 Slovakia16.5%
25 Slovenia16.3%
26 Chile16.1%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 1.832926 X +5.958
Correlation coefficient (r)0.757
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.573

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 103927.336779 X +3631.111
Correlation coefficient (r)0.741
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.549

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 7.651685 X +77.287
Correlation coefficient (r)0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 0.045140 X +1.594
Correlation coefficient (r)0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 1.379849 X +9.092
Correlation coefficient (r)0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008