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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands91.0%
2 Norway85.5%
3 Switzerland82.7%
4 Austria81.1%
5 Japan79.0%
6 Germany74.0%
7 Ireland73.9%
8 Denmark73.6%
9 Sweden 72.1%
10 New Zealand71.1%
11 Hungary69.4%
12 Australia68.2%
13 United Kingdom65.8%
14 Slovakia65.0%
15 France63.5%
16 United States62.7%
17 Canada61.0%
18 Philippines57.7%
19 Portugal55.8%
20 Czech Republic54.7%
21 Poland48.5%
22 Italy46.8%
23 Latvia44.0%
24 Cyprus43.4%
25 Spain42.0%
26 Russian Federation40.9%
27 Chile40.8%
28 Israel38.6%
29 Slovenia30.1%
30 Bulgaria25.4%

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 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.246783 X +5.324
Correlation coefficient (r)0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 96956.384727 X -15563.477
Correlation coefficient (r)0.665
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.442

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 8.933731 X +74.522
Correlation coefficient (r)0.431
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.186

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.261386 X +1.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.935058 X +10.877
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005