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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 Sweden69.4%
2 Australia55.7%
3 United Kingdom48.5%
4 United States44.3%
5 Germany43.1%
6 Republic of Korea40.3%
7 Japan 38.2%
8 France35.5%
9 Italy19.8%

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. 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 = 2.394291 X +5.686
Correlation coefficient (r)0.659
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.434

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 60879.927864 X +22766.672
Correlation coefficient (r)0.671
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.450

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.695945 X +82.216
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.802558 X +1.117
Correlation coefficient (r)0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 6.099302 X +11.536
Correlation coefficient (r)0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018