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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada65.9%
2 Australia63.1%
3 Italy58.2%
4 United States57.7%
5 Japan 46.2%
6 Germany44.4%
7 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 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.569555 X +5.934
Correlation coefficient (r)0.416
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.173

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 47565.533530 X +25411.509
Correlation coefficient (r)0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.407845 X +83.559
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.808667 X +1.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.431
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.186

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -8.860818 X +17.364
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094