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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark85.2%
2 Austria82.2%
3 Switzerland81.8%
4 Netherlands78.6%
5 Norway78.4%
6 Germany76.8%
7 Ireland73.9%
8 Hungary71.3%
9 New Zealand71.0%
10 Canada70.1%
11 France67.2%
12 United States66.8%
13 Japan 65.6%
14 Sweden64.4%
15 Australia64.3%
16 Finland62.9%
17 Republic of Korea61.6%
18 United Kingdom61.5%
19 Czech Republic55.7%
20 Belgium54.7%
21 Latvia54.0%
22 Israel52.9%
23 Slovenia46.9%
24 Slovakia46.5%
25 Portugal46.0%
26 Spain45.6%
27 Chile45.1%
28 Mexico40.7%
29 Poland40.2%

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

No data for 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 1.623692 X +5.752
Correlation coefficient (r)0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 135980.451595 X -38248.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.717
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.514

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 12.327423 X +72.601
Correlation coefficient (r)0.453
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.205

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.067766 X +1.642
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 2.848919 X +8.604
Correlation coefficient (r)0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012