measured -- i) personal relationships; ii) social network support; iii) civic engagement; and iv) trust and cooperative norms …

This paper investigates the notion and role of trust in modern societies as a first step towards the construction of … indicators that could better inform our understanding of societal progress. Trust is commonly viewed as a proxy indicator of … social capital, and a high level of trust is considered a factor that can enhance economic growth and social well …

This paper describes the results of an international initiative on trust (Trustlab) run in six OECD countries between … determinants of trust in others and trust in institutions, administered to representative samples of participants. The main results … are as follows: 1) Self-reported measures of trust in institutions are validated experimentally, 2) Self-reported measures …

Interpersonal trust (i.e. trust in other people) is an issue of high interest to both policy-makers and researchers … seeking to understand what drives social and economic outcomes. However, for trust to usefully inform policy and analysis it … trust and other social and economic outcomes, evidence on the validity of trust from experimental data is conflicting. In …

A key policy concern in recent years has been the decline in levels of trust by citizen in public institutions. Trust …, despite its acknowledged importance, trust in public institutions is poorly understood and is not consistently measured across … OECD countries. The OECD Trust Database brings together information from a wide range of different household surveys …

producers and users: the model currently used by the OECD with respect to measuring “trust”, based on an assessment of the …