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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. Which statement comes closest to your belief about what your friend has a right to expect from you?
Choices: "My friend has a definite right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit" "My friend has some right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit" "My friend has no right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit"
Data: % of "My friend has a definite right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit" "My friend has some right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia50.8%
2 Japan 40.9%
3 Slovakia39.6%
4 Slovenia37.5%
5 Poland34.8%
6 Chile29.0%
7 Israel27.6%
8 Norway27.2%
9 Germany26.6%
10 Italy24.8%
11 France24.6%
12 Spain23.7%
13 Austria22.5%
14 Czech Republic22.4%
15 Ireland18.0%
16 Sweden17.2%
17 Switzerland16.9%
18 Canada16.7%
19 Denmark15.7%
20 Australia13.4%
21 Portugal13.1%
22 United Kingdom13.0%
23 Netherlands12.8%
24 Hungary10.9%
25 New Zealand10.6%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.719680 X +7.145
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -90136.880275 X +67995.680
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -11.790712 X +83.496
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.090455 X +1.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 8.806969 X +7.406
Correlation coefficient (r)0.347
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120