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Question: In general, would you say that people should obey the law without exception, or are there exceptional occasions on which people should follow their consciences even if it means breaking the law?
Choices: "Obey the law without exception" "Follow conscience on occasions"
Data: % of "Follow conscience on occasions"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France77.3%
2 Japan 75.7%
3 Switzerland70.5%
4 New Zealand69.4%
5 Syrian Arab Republic68.5%
6 Netherlands65.8%
7 Finland65.0%
8 Germany61.0%
9 Canada60.3%
10 Republic of Korea58.7%
11 Slovenia58.5%
12 Australia58.0%
13 Latvia57.1%
14 Croatia56.4%
15 United States56.3%
16 Norway54.3%
17 Philippines54.0%
18 Russian Federation51.1%
19 Portugal50.0%
20 Czech Republic49.8%
21 Denmark48.6%
22 Uruguay47.0%
23 Ireland45.4%
24 Tajikistan41.3%
25 Hungary39.7%
26 Israel38.9%
27 Uzbekistan38.3%
28 Dominican Republic30.3%
29 Spain29.8%
30 Chile29.4%
31 Poland28.0%
32 South Africa23.5%
33 Viet Nam9.0%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.577564 X +5.730
Correlation coefficient (r)0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 84667.587054 X -4765.147
Correlation coefficient (r)0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 16.506117 X +69.556
Correlation coefficient (r)0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.851288 X +2.238
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.481833 X +9.306
Correlation coefficient (r)0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006