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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden73.7%
2 Australia63.8%
3 Japan 60.7%
4 United States48.8%
5 United Kingdom48.7%
6 Germany47.6%
7 Republic of Korea46.2%
8 France42.4%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.807734 X +5.794
Correlation coefficient (r)0.375
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 42272.317328 X +28400.858
Correlation coefficient (r)0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 7.448580 X +77.841
Correlation coefficient (r)0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.359015 X +1.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -8.696434 X +19.845
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025