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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 79.0%
2 Germany74.0%
3 Sweden72.1%
4 Australia68.2%
5 United Kingdom65.8%
6 France63.5%
7 United States62.7%
8 Canada61.0%
9 Italy46.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.193648 X +6.730
Correlation coefficient (r)0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 26023.199860 X +34243.156
Correlation coefficient (r)0.216
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.949430 X +77.802
Correlation coefficient (r)0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.515180 X +1.192
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 21.687713 X -1.948
Correlation coefficient (r)0.626
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.392