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The degree of trust respondents had for particular groupsor people in general may be related to their experiencesin other aspects of their lives. In Table 48, the incidencesof primary carer reporting whether their family hadexperienced racism, discrimination or prejudice arepresented broken down by their overall ‘trust’ score. Thetrust score was generated by adding responses to thefive trust questions (for those participants who answeredall five questions). Responses to individual questionsranged from 1 (‘strongly agree’) to 5 (‘strongly disagree’),so that the total score may include values from 5 to 25,where 5 indicates that the person is very trusting and 25very distrusting. The respondents were divided into fourapproximately equal groups depending on their totalscores: 28.2 per cent of respondents scored between5 and 10, 26.2 per cent scored 11 or 12, 20.0 per centscored 13 or 14 and the remaining 25.6 per cent hadscores of 15 or higher. In the 2008 HILDA Survey StatisticalReport (Wilkins et al. 2011), the authors found that level oftrust is a significant predictor of reporting experience ofdiscrimination in both job applications and in the courseof employment. While the Footprints in Time study askedabout their general experience of racism, discriminationor prejudice, the respondents were nonetheless morelikely to report such experiences if they had low levels oftrust (scores between 15 and 25), as presented in Table48. The table suggests that there is a link between racism,discrimination or prejudice, and levels of trust. However,it is not possible to say whether people who haveexperienced discrimination are more likely to becomedistrusting or whether people who are less trusting aremore likely to perceive and report discrimination.Table 48: Family experiences of racism, discrimination or prejudice by level of trust, per centFrequencyVery trusting(5–10)Overall level of trustModeratelytrusting(11–12)Moderatelydistrusting(13–14)Very distrusting(15–25)*TotalEvery day 1.9 2.0 3.0 4.7 2.9Every week 1.3 1.2 4.5 2.4 2.2Sometimes 10.8 13.6 15.2 18.6 14.4Only occasionally 13.4 13.3 8.7 15.3 12.9Never or hardly ever 72.6 69.9 68.6 59.0 67.6Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0* The Total column lists proportions of all respondents experiencing discrimination, including those for whom the trust score wasnot calculated.60 Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children | Key Summary Report from Wave 3