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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in controlling crime?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany50.8%
2 Canada33.0%
3 Australia32.9%
4 France29.1%
5 United States22.2%
6 Japan 18.3%
7 Republic of Korea16.8%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.051901 X +5.809
Correlation coefficient (r)0.705
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.497

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 30213.192815 X +41895.001
Correlation coefficient (r)0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.094219 X +83.088
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.153864 X +1.117
Correlation coefficient (r)0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -31.643150 X +24.952
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.628
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.394