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Question: Suppose you were riding in a car driven by a close friend. You know he is going too fast. He hits a pedestrian. He asks you to tell the police that he was obeying the speed limit. What would you do in this situation?
Choices: "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was going faster than the speed limit" "Probably tell the policy that your friend was going faster than the speed limit" "Probably tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit" "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit"
Data: % of "Probably tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit" "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia51.7%
2 Slovakia36.2%
3 Russian Federation35.3%
4 Czech Republic34.6%
5 Israel34.5%
6 Poland32.4%
7 Philippines32.3%
8 France32.2%
9 Japan 31.7%
10 Italy30.6%
11 Portugal28.2%
12 Slovenia26.7%
13 Germany24.5%
14 Austria22.7%
15 Chile20.0%
15 Sweden20.0%
17 Denmark19.1%
18 Canada19.0%
19 Bulgaria18.6%
20 Switzerland18.5%
21 Cyprus18.3%
21 Ireland18.3%
23 Norway18.0%
24 Spain16.6%
25 Netherlands15.1%
26 United Kingdom14.2%
27 Hungary13.8%
28 Australia12.4%
29 United States12.3%
30 New Zealand7.2%

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 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.804512 X +7.049
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -125307.849938 X +73488.604
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -17.718809 X +83.740
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.392
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.820278 X +1.441
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 7.100131 X +7.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031