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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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines87.8%
2 Uruguay80.2%
3 Ireland80.1%
4 New Zealand75.5%
5 Poland74.0%
6 Spain72.9%
7 Israel72.8%
8 Norway69.7%
9 Canada68.4%
10 Switzerland68.1%
11 Austria67.4%
12 United States66.9%
13 Italy66.8%
14 Netherlands62.8%
15 Hungary62.2%
16 Australia59.0%
17 Japan 58.1%
18 Slovenia57.1%
19 Germany56.7%
20 Bulgaria50.9%
21 Czech Republic43.2%
22 Russian Federation36.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.240874 X +5.823
Correlation coefficient (r)0.293
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 52063.965456 X +11545.679
Correlation coefficient (r)0.216
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 7.051259 X +74.672
Correlation coefficient (r)0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.960083 X +1.025
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -14.591207 X +19.710
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160