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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway81.3%
2 Sweden73.7%
3 Switzerland68.0%
4 Finland67.3%
5 New Zealand66.6%
6 Australia63.8%
7 Austria61.4%
8 Japan 60.7%
9 Ireland55.2%
10 Hungary50.5%
11 Czech Republic50.0%
12 Belgium49.7%
13 United States48.8%
14 United Kingdom48.7%
15 Germany47.6%
16 Republic of Korea46.2%
17 Israel42.7%
18 France42.4%
19 Slovenia38.8%
20 Latvia33.9%
21 Poland30.3%
22 Slovakia28.4%
23 Mexico26.1%
24 Chile13.4%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.306396 X +5.645
Correlation coefficient (r)0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 110772.377616 X -8894.074
Correlation coefficient (r)0.736
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.542

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 10.688852 X +75.130
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.446355 X +1.826
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.978755 X +11.685
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017