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Question: How much confidence do you have in business and industry?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia78.6%
2 United States77.0%
3 Sweden74.8%
4 Germany71.6%
5 United Kingdom71.1%
6 Republic of Korea70.9%
7 Japan 55.7%
8 Italy55.3%
9 France36.6%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.577253 X +5.700
Correlation coefficient (r)0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 52615.235606 X +14886.918
Correlation coefficient (r)0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.862716 X +85.108
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.272554 X +1.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7.379220 X +9.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026