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Question: In the last five years, how often have you or a member of your immediate family come across a public official who hinted they wanted, or asked for, a bribe or favour in return for a service?
Choices: "Never" "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Quite often" "Very often"
Data: % of "Never"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark95.2%
2 Switzerland94.6%
3 Ireland93.5%
4 Finland93.0%
5 Spain90.9%
6 Norway89.7%
7 New Zealand89.6%
8 Netherlands89.3%
9 Sweden89.1%
10 United Kingdom 88.8%
11 Germany88.7%
11 Portugal88.7%
13 United States87.9%
14 Australia87.7%
15 Canada85.0%
16 Japan84.1%
17 France83.9%
18 Slovenia80.3%
19 Poland80.1%
20 Republic of Korea79.7%
21 Hungary77.7%
22 Chile74.7%
23 Israel72.9%
24 Czech Republic59.8%
25 Latvia54.3%
26 Slovakia47.4%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.169392 X +5.037
Correlation coefficient (r)0.465
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.216

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 120777.946145 X -52484.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.623
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.388

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 13.147653 X +69.984
Correlation coefficient (r)0.626
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.392

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.505885 X +1.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -6.339462 X +18.438
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.166
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028