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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile79.3%
2 Portugal76.1%
3 Israel74.3%
4 Poland70.3%
5 Canada65.9%
6 Spain64.2%
7 New Zealand63.5%
8 Ireland63.3%
9 Denmark63.2%
10 Australia63.1%
11 Italy58.2%
11 Switzerland 58.2%
13 United States57.7%
14 Norway55.8%
15 Netherlands55.4%
16 Slovakia55.3%
17 Hungary53.9%
18 Slovenia50.7%
19 Japan46.2%
20 Austria44.9%
21 Germany44.4%
22 Latvia41.0%
23 Czech Republic39.9%
24 France37.5%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.322105 X +6.527
Correlation coefficient (r)0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 8528.897334 X +42692.211
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 4.315190 X +77.940
Correlation coefficient (r)0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.299835 X +1.440
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -11.520249 X +16.319
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.470
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.221