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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:
46 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Nepal92.8%
2 Malawi91.6%
3 Ghana91.1%
4 Cambodia90.9%
5 Indonesia90.3%
6 Malaysia89.8%
7 Kenya89.6%
8 Algeria87.4%
8 Thailand87.4%
10 Sri Lanka86.7%
11 Jordan86.3%
12 Georgia85.6%
13 Turkiye85.1%
14 Singapore82.4%
15 Philippines80.6%
16 United States79.3%
17 Viet Nam79.1%
18 Nigeria78.7%
19 Chile78.6%
20 Suriname77.8%
21 Taiwan75.5%
22 Israel72.6%
23 Republic of Korea70.9%
24 Croatia70.2%
25 Spain69.1%
26 Iceland69.0%
27 Lithuania68.8%
28 New Zealand67.3%
28 Slovenia67.3%
30 South Africa63.9%
31 Bulgaria60.2%
32 United Kingdom57.7%
33 Mongolia56.2%
34 Slovakia55.9%
34 Sweden55.9%
36 Finland53.0%
37 Italy51.2%
38 Norway50.2%
39 Denmark49.2%
40 Switzerland47.0%
41 Russian Federation46.6%
42 France46.0%
43 Germany44.7%
44 Japan 40.8%
45 Czech Republic40.1%
46 Hungary37.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 192 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data45
Regression equation
Y = -3.731338 X +8.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -80758.086667 X +84018.057
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.494
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.244

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data45
Regression equation
Y = -20.198803 X +89.534
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data45
Regression equation
Y = 2.120368 X +0.542
Correlation coefficient (r)0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data45
Regression equation
Y = -8.319843 X +15.967
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063