Lifestyle > Confidence in social institutions Stats: compare key data on Ireland & United States
Definitions
- Armed forces: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Church: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Civil service: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Companies: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Legal system: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Legal system per million: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
- Parliament: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Police: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Police per million: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
- Press: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
- Trade unions: Proportion of people in 1990s surveys expressing confidence in this social institution.
SOURCES: World Values Survey; World Values Survey. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.