http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5971421/Prostitutes-are-more-trustworthy-than-government-officials-Chinese-survey-finds.html
I believe if this survey went world wide you would find the results very much the same. Government world wide has lost their credibility due to their lack of responsibility and failures regarding their job performance.
The online survey of 3,376 Chinese showed that 7.9 per cent of respondents considered sex workers trustworthy, putting them in third place after farmers and religious workers, the Insight China magazine said on its website.
"A list like this is at the same time surprising and embarrassing," said an editorial in the China Daily English-language newspaper.
"The sex workers' unexpected prominence on this list of honour... is indeed unusual."
The newspaper said the list, based on a survey carried out in June and July, showed scientists and teachers ranked "way below, and that government functionaries, too, scored hardly better
