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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway81.3%
2 Sweden73.7%
3 Switzerland 68.0%
4 Finland67.3%
5 New Zealand66.6%
6 Australia63.8%
7 Austria61.4%
8 Japan60.7%
9 Ireland55.2%
10 Hungary50.5%
11 Czech Republic50.0%
12 Belgium49.7%
13 United States48.8%
14 United Kingdom48.7%
15 Germany47.6%
16 Republic of Korea46.2%
17 Israel42.7%
18 France42.4%
19 Slovenia38.8%
20 Latvia33.9%
21 Poland30.3%
22 Slovakia28.4%
23 Mexico26.1%
24 Chile13.4%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.583652 X +5.960
Correlation coefficient (r)0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 115783.292398 X -11027.511
Correlation coefficient (r)0.708
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.501

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 15.438993 X +72.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.649
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.421

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.211328 X +1.732
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.682599 X +9.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029