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Question: How much confidence do you have in parliament?
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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands83.5%
2 Philippines82.3%
3 Norway76.4%
4 Cyprus74.3%
5 Switzerland72.6%
6 Hungary66.1%
7 United States65.9%
8 Australia64.7%
9 Ireland63.2%
10 Spain60.8%
11 Austria60.4%
12 Denmark59.4%
13 Slovakia58.0%
14 United Kingdom57.8%
15 Portugal56.5%
16 Sweden55.1%
17 Canada51.1%
18 Israel49.4%
19 France47.6%
20 Chile45.5%
21 Germany45.2%
22 Poland43.5%
23 Slovenia41.6%
24 Italy37.1%
25 Latvia34.2%
26 New Zealand33.3%
27 Russian Federation32.4%
28 Bulgaria31.1%
29 Czech Republic 21.7%
30 Japan20.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.303765 X +5.987
Correlation coefficient (r)0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 58431.315502 X +11888.578
Correlation coefficient (r)0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.151365 X +78.766
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.236174 X +1.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.643373 X +17.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.340
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116