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Question: How often do you think that people would try to take advantage of you if they got the chance, and how often would they try to be fair?
Choices: "Try to take advantage almost all of the time" "Try to take advantage most of the time" "Try to be fair most of the time" "Try to be fair almost all of the time"
Data: % of "Try to be fair most of the time" "Try to be fair almost all of the time"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan79.0%
2 Germany74.0%
3 Sweden72.1%
4 Australia68.2%
5 United Kingdom65.8%
6 France 63.5%
7 United States62.7%
8 Canada61.0%
9 Italy46.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.425632 X +6.440
Correlation coefficient (r)0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 9428.723497 X +44551.805
Correlation coefficient (r)0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.723089 X +78.721
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.488495 X +1.231
Correlation coefficient (r)0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 18.409840 X -2.150
Correlation coefficient (r)0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299