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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States79.8%
2 Republic of Korea73.3%
3 Australia64.4%
4 United Kingdom64.1%
5 Sweden61.2%
6 Germany49.7%
7 Italy49.6%
8 Japan47.6%
9 France 40.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.541960 X +6.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 63929.714321 X +10561.993
Correlation coefficient (r)0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.340558 X +87.440
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.516886 X +1.789
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 22.572264 X -2.123
Correlation coefficient (r)0.598
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.358