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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in dealing with threats to [Countryfs] security?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany63.3%
2 Australia61.8%
3 France53.2%
4 United States46.8%
5 United Kingdom42.1%
6 Sweden38.3%
7 Canada37.1%
8 Japan 19.3%
9 Republic of Korea16.7%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.178385 X +5.882
Correlation coefficient (r)0.726
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.527

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 41038.652622 X +34054.185
Correlation coefficient (r)0.600
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.360

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.232879 X +84.046
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.226786 X +0.971
Correlation coefficient (r)0.720
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.518

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -20.566676 X +23.429
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354