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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:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia96.6%
2 Turkiye92.2%
3 Kenya89.1%
4 Sri Lanka88.9%
5 South Africa88.2%
6 Taiwan84.7%
7 Philippines83.2%
8 United States79.8%
9 Israel77.4%
10 Dominican Republic76.4%
11 Chile73.7%
12 Republic of Korea73.3%
13 Cyprus71.4%
14 Poland68.5%
15 Croatia68.2%
16 New Zealand65.9%
17 Spain65.6%
18 Mexico65.5%
18 Uruguay65.5%
20 Ireland64.6%
20 Tanzania64.6%
22 Australia64.4%
23 Ukraine64.3%
24 United Kingdom64.1%
25 Portugal63.4%
26 Sweden61.2%
27 Slovakia60.2%
27 Venezuela60.2%
29 Finland60.0%
30 Denmark59.0%
31 Norway57.1%
32 Netherlands54.0%
33 Slovenia51.5%
34 Germany49.7%
35 Italy49.6%
36 Belgium49.1%
37 Latvia48.1%
38 Japan 47.6%
39 Hungary46.5%
40 Switzerland45.4%
41 Russian Federation45.0%
42 France40.9%
43 Austria39.3%
44 Czech Republic37.5%

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 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -2.637621 X +7.988
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -62988.820491 X +74551.604
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -18.702266 X +89.191
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.561266 X +0.797
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -5.707705 X +13.811
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027