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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway78.7%
2 Sweden67.4%
3 Denmark66.0%
4 Netherlands65.2%
5 Switzerland64.2%
6 New Zealand56.1%
7 Canada55.6%
8 Australia54.4%
9 Austria53.0%
10 United States49.8%
11 Czech Republic49.6%
12 United Kingdom49.4%
13 Ireland44.5%
14 Germany42.5%
15 France38.5%
15 Spain38.5%
17 Hungary36.4%
18 Japan34.3%
19 Israel28.6%
20 Philippines27.8%
21 Russian Federation23.4%
22 Bulgaria23.1%
22 Poland23.1%
24 Latvia21.5%
25 Portugal 21.1%
26 Italy19.0%
27 Cyprus16.6%
28 Slovakia16.5%
29 Slovenia16.3%
30 Chile16.1%

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 = 2.664864 X +5.615
Correlation coefficient (r)0.794
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.630

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 103769.460806 X +1467.667
Correlation coefficient (r)0.767
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.588

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 8.639093 X +76.459
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.086679 X +1.635
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.547470 X +11.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003