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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines85.0%
2 Uruguay80.1%
3 Chile79.3%
4 Portugal76.1%
5 Israel74.3%
6 Poland70.3%
7 Canada65.9%
8 Spain64.2%
9 New Zealand63.5%
10 Ireland63.3%
11 Denmark63.2%
12 Australia63.1%
13 Italy58.2%
13 Switzerland58.2%
15 United States57.7%
16 Norway55.8%
17 Netherlands55.4%
18 Slovakia55.3%
19 Hungary53.9%
20 Cyprus51.5%
21 Slovenia50.7%
22 Bulgaria49.8%
23 Japan 46.2%
24 Austria44.9%
25 Germany44.4%
26 Syrian Arab Republic41.7%
27 Latvia41.0%
28 Czech Republic39.9%
29 France37.5%
30 Russian Federation33.6%

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

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.538380 X +6.276
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -7576.985195 X +46708.539
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 3.239401 X +77.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.472233 X +1.398
Correlation coefficient (r)0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.448914 X +14.428
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066