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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:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands91.0%
2 Norway85.5%
3 Switzerland82.7%
4 Austria81.1%
5 Japan 79.0%
6 Germany74.0%
7 Ireland73.9%
8 Denmark73.6%
9 Sweden72.1%
10 New Zealand71.1%
11 Hungary69.4%
12 Australia68.2%
13 United Kingdom65.8%
14 Slovakia65.0%
15 France63.5%
16 United States62.7%
17 Canada61.0%
18 Portugal55.8%
19 Czech Republic54.7%
20 Poland48.5%
21 Italy46.8%
22 Latvia44.0%
23 Spain42.0%
24 Chile40.8%
25 Israel38.6%
26 Slovenia30.1%

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 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 1.030192 X +6.088
Correlation coefficient (r)0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 95352.732786 X -12326.384
Correlation coefficient (r)0.593
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.352

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 5.806496 X +76.878
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.322388 X +1.817
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.158
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.075817 X +8.369
Correlation coefficient (r)0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014