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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - To get all the way to the top in this country today, you have to be corrupt.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany42.9%
2 Japan 41.2%
3 France40.6%
4 Sweden20.7%
5 United Kingdom19.0%
6 Canada17.6%
7 Australia17.1%
7 United States17.1%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.035862 X +7.457
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -57819.457894 X +69008.083
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.693
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.480

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 6.420594 X +79.915
Correlation coefficient (r)0.364
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.004526 X +1.569
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.674566 X +11.787
Correlation coefficient (r)0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048