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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - To get all the way to the top in this country today, you have to be corrupt.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea51.8%
2 France 40.1%
3 Italy30.9%
4 Germany29.5%
5 Japan20.2%
6 United Kingdom16.3%
7 Australia15.8%
8 United States15.4%
9 Sweden8.5%

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 = -2.065128 X +7.152
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.670
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.449

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -68124.656486 X +65548.204
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.360152 X +80.826
Correlation coefficient (r)0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.312410 X +1.818
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 11.042660 X +8.381
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100