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Question: How important is giving bribes for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy15.9%
2 Republic of Korea6.9%
3 Germany4.4%
4 France 3.5%
5 United States2.8%
6 Japan2.7%
7 United Kingdom2.1%
8 Australia2.0%
9 Sweden1.5%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.567441 X +6.839
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.482
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.232

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -167401.713347 X +56026.991
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.501
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.251

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 8.709966 X +81.529
Correlation coefficient (r)0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.598300 X +1.652
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -32.573347 X +12.697
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092