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Question: What do you think about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than his or her husband or wife?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States79.8%
4 United Kingdom64.1%
6 Germany49.7%
7 Italy49.6%
8 Japan47.6%
9 France 40.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.922645 X +6.021
Correlation coefficient (r)0.468
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.219

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 99250.475688 X -4603.805
Correlation coefficient (r)0.835
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.697

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -12.695545 X +88.569
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.783
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.613

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.412506 X +1.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 11.185344 X +3.130
Correlation coefficient (r)0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187