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Question: What do you think about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than his or her husband or wife?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada65.9%
2 Australia63.1%
3 Italy58.2%
4 United States57.7%
5 Japan46.2%
6 Germany44.4%
7 France 37.5%

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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.489703 X +5.834
Correlation coefficient (r)0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 72807.992408 X +11952.170
Correlation coefficient (r)0.488
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.238

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.899831 X +82.812
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.582412 X +1.846
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.011493 X +9.012
Correlation coefficient (r)0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004