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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:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland80.1%
2 New Zealand75.5%
3 Poland74.0%
4 Spain72.9%
5 Israel72.8%
6 Norway69.7%
7 Canada68.4%
8 Switzerland68.1%
9 Austria 67.4%
10 United States66.9%
11 Italy66.8%
12 Netherlands62.8%
13 Hungary62.2%
14 Australia59.0%
15 Japan58.1%
16 Slovenia57.1%
17 Germany56.7%
18 Czech Republic43.2%

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

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.714445 X +6.310
Correlation coefficient (r)0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 120135.918615 X -26149.953
Correlation coefficient (r)0.384
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 6.869562 X +76.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.135938 X +1.524
Correlation coefficient (r)0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -9.566135 X +15.975
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092