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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:
26 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 Japan 34.3%
19 Israel28.6%
20 Poland23.1%
21 Latvia21.5%
22 Portugal21.1%
23 Italy19.0%
24 Slovakia16.5%
25 Slovenia16.3%
26 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 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.261387 X +5.861
Correlation coefficient (r)0.811
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.658

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 96595.437311 X +6131.641
Correlation coefficient (r)0.751
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.564

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 5.576514 X +78.389
Correlation coefficient (r)0.408
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.064616 X +1.609
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.083026 X +12.370
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000