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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland 76.3%
2 Switzerland67.0%
3 Denmark64.5%
4 Germany63.3%
5 Australia61.8%
6 France53.2%
7 Norway50.5%
8 Czech Republic50.2%
9 New Zealand49.7%
10 Dominican Republic48.6%
11 United States46.8%
12 Hungary45.7%
13 Latvia44.7%
14 United Kingdom42.1%
15 Philippines40.8%
16 Ireland40.7%
17 Slovenia40.1%
18 South Africa40.0%
19 Sweden38.3%
20 Poland38.2%
21 Russian Federation37.4%
22 Canada37.1%
23 Netherlands36.7%
24 Croatia35.5%
24 Israel35.5%
26 Uruguay33.8%
27 Chile33.4%
28 Spain30.9%
29 Venezuela27.6%
30 Portugal22.8%
31 Taiwan22.6%
32 Japan19.3%
33 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 205 countries.
Source
ISSP 2006

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.062741 X +5.298
Correlation coefficient (r)0.582
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.339
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 83428.936579 X +4440.911
Correlation coefficient (r)0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 3.789700 X +77.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.115786 X +1.620
Correlation coefficient (r)0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -4.623635 X +15.310
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010