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Question: How often do you think that people would try to take advantage of you if they got the chance, and how often would they try to be fair?
Choices: "Try to take advantage almost all of the time" "Try to take advantage most of the time" "Try to be fair most of the time" "Try to be fair almost all of the time"
Data: % of "Try to be fair most of the time" "Try to be fair almost all of the time"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands91.0%
2 Norway85.5%
3 Switzerland82.7%
4 Austria81.1%
5 Japan 79.0%
6 Germany74.0%
7 Ireland73.9%
8 Denmark73.6%
9 Sweden72.1%
10 New Zealand71.1%
11 Hungary69.4%
12 Australia68.2%
13 United Kingdom65.8%
14 Slovakia65.0%
15 France63.5%
16 United States62.7%
17 Canada61.0%
18 Philippines57.7%
19 Portugal55.8%
20 Czech Republic54.7%
21 Poland48.5%
22 Italy46.8%
23 Latvia44.0%
24 Cyprus43.4%
25 Spain42.0%
26 Russian Federation40.9%
27 Chile40.8%
28 Israel38.6%
29 Slovenia30.1%
30 Bulgaria25.4%

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 data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.670669 X +5.611
Correlation coefficient (r)0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 97781.422575 X -15315.815
Correlation coefficient (r)0.630
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.397

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 10.834886 X +72.986
Correlation coefficient (r)0.423
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.179

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.177759 X +1.743
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.658937 X +8.516
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005