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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - To get all the way to the top in this country today, you have to be corrupt.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation80.4%
2 Bulgaria65.7%
3 Poland56.7%
4 Slovakia52.8%
5 Austria48.4%
6 Germany42.9%
7 Portugal42.4%
8 Slovenia42.2%
9 Japan 41.2%
10 France40.6%
11 Latvia40.5%
12 Czech Republic38.9%
13 Israel38.5%
14 Chile37.0%
15 Spain35.1%
16 Hungary31.2%
17 Cyprus23.7%
18 Sweden20.7%
19 Philippines19.5%
20 United Kingdom19.0%
21 New Zealand18.2%
22 Canada17.6%
23 Australia17.1%
23 United States17.1%
25 Norway10.8%

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

No data for 213 countries.
Source
ISSP 1999

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.688347 X +7.144
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.570
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.325
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -79033.152699 X +66472.271
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -13.123710 X +83.667
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.354476 X +1.777
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 7.351399 X +7.180
Correlation coefficient (r)0.302
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091