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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada68.4%
2 United States66.9%
3 Italy66.8%
4 Australia59.0%
5 Japan 58.1%
6 Germany56.7%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.025585 X +6.141
Correlation coefficient (r)0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 20171.184903 X +39103.919
Correlation coefficient (r)0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -21.861731 X +95.363
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.581746 X +1.819
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -17.670114 X +23.520
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078