A report on public confidence published Tuesday by STATEC has found that the Luxembourg population has the greatest hopes for the police and the lowest for the political system.
A 2013 EU-SILC survey, upon which the report was based, asked respondents to rate on a scale of 1 to 10, the degree of confidence they held in the political system, the judiciary institution and the police system.
Luxembourg holds the most confidence in its police force, at 6.1, which comes in a little higher than the European average of 6.0. Although the country's confidence was found to be invested the least in the political system, at 5.0, this still represented a significant investment of confidence compared to the European average of 3.5, with certain southern European countries such as Portugal showing as little as 1.7 in terms of faith in their political system. Meanwhile Nordic countries such as Finland (6.0), Norway (5.9) and Denmark (5.9) were placed at the top of the rankings.
Luxembourg's perception of justice in the country was relatively positive, with 5.3 once again marking a higher score than the 4.6 European average. However, the Grand Duchy scored lower than the European average in terms of social trust, with 5.5 against 5.8. STATEC highlighted the strong correlation between trust in the police and interpersonal, or social trust, against the weak link between confidence in the political system and interpersonal trust.
In general, it was found that the higher the perception of corruption, the lower the confidence in the institution, as shown by the crossing of confidence data from the EU-SILC survey against the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) of the association Transparency International.
Graphs by EUROSTAT-STATEC
