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Question: Indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements. "You should take care of yourself and your family first, before helping other people"
Choices: "Agree strongly" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Disagree strongly"
Data: % of "Agree strongly" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Brazil93.8%
2 Philippines91.9%
3 South Africa88.2%
4 United States83.3%
5 Hungary82.8%
6 Slovenia81.3%
7 Italy80.6%
8 Spain79.6%
9 Israel78.8%
9 Poland78.8%
11 New Zealand77.3%
12 Chile76.1%
13 Russian Federation76.0%
14 Austria75.8%
15 Canada72.3%
16 United Kingdom71.7%
17 Japan 69.3%
17 Latvia69.3%
19 Australia68.9%
20 Finland66.7%
21 Norway63.3%
22 France62.3%
23 Czech Republic60.1%
24 Switzerland59.3%
25 Denmark57.6%
26 Cyprus55.5%
27 Germany51.2%

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 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -2.187679 X +8.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -119942.887870 X +128309.588
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.515
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.265

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -26.887271 X +98.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.168818 X +0.811
Correlation coefficient (r)0.310
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.096

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 5.177348 X +6.413
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014