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Question: Thinking of the public service in the country, how committed is it to serve the people?
Choices: "Very committed" "Somewhat committed" "Not very committed" "Not at all committed"
Data: % of "Very committed" "Somewhat committed"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel86.2%
2 Austria80.3%
3 Ireland77.1%
4 United States75.4%
5 New Zealand72.6%
6 Switzerland 71.8%
7 Canada69.9%
8 United Kingdom68.9%
9 Norway67.9%
10 Belgium66.5%
11 Australia64.1%
12 Germany62.5%
13 Hungary61.2%
14 Denmark60.2%
15 Netherlands56.7%
16 France56.1%
17 Finland55.6%
18 Sweden55.0%
19 Mexico53.6%
20 Slovakia53.5%
21 Spain50.3%
22 Chile41.2%
23 Portugal39.3%
24 Republic of Korea39.1%
25 Latvia37.0%
26 Slovenia32.0%
27 Poland28.3%
28 Czech Republic21.2%
29 Japan17.5%

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 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 1.350856 X +6.012
Correlation coefficient (r)0.508
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.258

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 90746.911554 X -4013.050
Correlation coefficient (r)0.636
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.404

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 4.440695 X +77.821
Correlation coefficient (r)0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.796308 X +1.154
Correlation coefficient (r)0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -4.557731 X +12.932
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054