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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 Germany76.8%
2 Canada70.1%
3 France67.2%
4 United States66.8%
5 Japan 65.6%
6 Sweden64.4%
7 Australia64.3%
8 Republic of Korea61.6%
9 United Kingdom61.5%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.010421 X +4.797
Correlation coefficient (r)0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 36560.649397 X +27013.071
Correlation coefficient (r)0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.690896 X +89.616
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.558703 X +0.450
Correlation coefficient (r)0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -36.466740 X +39.020
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091