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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 = 94920.924918 X +9200.031
Correlation coefficient (r)0.720
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.518

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 5.506922 X +78.626
Correlation coefficient (r)0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.109993 X +1.589
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

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