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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden65.8%
2 Canada56.9%
3 Australia54.8%
4 United States48.2%
5 Germany48.0%
6 United Kingdom46.8%
7 Republic of Korea36.7%
8 France36.6%
9 Japan 32.3%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.996042 X +4.907
Correlation coefficient (r)0.875
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.766

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 74337.828581 X +16122.946
Correlation coefficient (r)0.715
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.511

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.962466 X +84.194
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.259
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.909634 X +1.056
Correlation coefficient (r)0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -19.925074 X +24.211
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144