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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:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark85.2%
2 Austria82.2%
3 Switzerland81.8%
4 Netherlands78.6%
5 Norway78.4%
6 Germany76.8%
7 Cyprus75.2%
8 Taiwan74.9%
9 Ireland73.9%
10 Hungary71.3%
11 New Zealand71.0%
12 Canada70.1%
13 France67.2%
14 United States66.8%
15 Japan 65.6%
16 Sweden64.4%
17 Australia64.3%
18 Finland62.9%
19 Philippines62.4%
20 Republic of Korea61.6%
21 United Kingdom61.5%
22 Russian Federation57.3%
23 Czech Republic55.7%
24 Belgium54.7%
25 Latvia54.0%
26 Israel52.9%
27 South Africa49.5%
28 Uruguay49.3%
29 Slovenia46.9%
30 Slovakia46.5%
31 Bulgaria46.3%
32 Portugal46.0%
33 Spain45.6%
34 Chile45.1%
35 Mexico40.7%
36 Poland40.2%
37 Venezuela32.5%
38 Brazil31.0%

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

No data for 200 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 1.952687 X +5.402
Correlation coefficient (r)0.491
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.241

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 128637.518816 X -38282.529
Correlation coefficient (r)0.701
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.491

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 19.800014 X +66.558
Correlation coefficient (r)0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -0.389920 X +1.888
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 2.048949 X +9.200
Correlation coefficient (r)0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003