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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. What would you do in this situation?
Choices: "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was going faster than the speed limit" "Probably tell the policy that your friend was going faster than the speed limit" "Probably tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit" "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit"
Data: % of "Probably tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit" "Definitely tell the policy that your friend was not going faster than the speed limit"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France32.2%
2 Japan 31.7%
3 Italy30.6%
4 Germany24.5%
5 Sweden20.0%
6 Canada19.0%
7 United Kingdom14.2%
8 Australia12.4%
9 United States12.3%

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 = -3.511136 X +7.626
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.714
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.510

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -111130.754274 X +75705.384
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.815
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.664

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 12.917522 X +78.896
Correlation coefficient (r)0.527
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.278

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.543712 X +1.650
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.131006 X +12.811
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.054
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003