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Question: Suppose you were riding in a car driven by a close friend. You know he is going too fast. He hits a pedestrian. He asks you to tell the police that he was obeying the speed limit. What would you do in this situation?
Choices: "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was going faster than the speed limit" "Probably tell the policy that your friend was going faster than the speed limit" "Probably tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit" "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit"
Data: % of "Probably tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit" "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 32.2%
2 Japan31.7%
3 Italy30.6%
4 Germany24.5%
5 Sweden20.0%
6 Canada19.0%
7 United Kingdom14.2%
8 Australia12.4%
9 United States12.3%

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 = -3.016808 X +7.381
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -141856.574042 X +81800.399
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.832
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.692

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 14.682764 X +78.621
Correlation coefficient (r)0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.842536 X +1.738
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.397762 X +12.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125