Trust in Other People

QoG code: ess_trpeople

Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people? Please tell me on a score of 0 to 10, where 0 means you can't be too careful and 10 means that most people can be trusted.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-11-27
Last updated by source
2024-06-20
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section 31
Standard cross-section 31
Standard time-series 38
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2002-2020

Country coverage

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  • Albania
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Montenegro
  • Netherlands
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2002 to 2020.