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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands85.6%
2 Denmark83.1%
3 Philippines 82.9%
4 United States80.7%
5 New Zealand80.0%
6 Ireland79.5%
7 United Kingdom78.2%
8 Israel77.3%
9 Australia75.8%
10 Canada75.0%
11 Austria73.9%
12 Norway72.7%
13 Sweden71.3%
14 Germany69.4%
15 Spain68.8%
16 Slovenia66.9%
17 Hungary64.3%
18 Chile62.9%
19 Switzerland62.4%
20 Italy60.8%
21 Poland60.2%
22 Cyprus59.9%
23 Latvia51.3%
24 Portugal50.4%
25 Japan43.6%
26 Slovakia40.0%
27 Czech Republic38.4%
28 Bulgaria35.6%
29 France33.4%
30 Russian Federation28.8%

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 = 2.405148 X +5.145
Correlation coefficient (r)0.642
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.412

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 77441.971846 X -6506.145
Correlation coefficient (r)0.513
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.263

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 7.415637 X +75.178
Correlation coefficient (r)0.345
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.119

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.449076 X +1.314
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.900334 X +18.994
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.375
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141