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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:
26 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 Sweden72.1%
10 New Zealand71.1%
11 Hungary69.4%
12 Australia68.2%
13 United Kingdom65.8%
14 Slovakia65.0%
15 France63.5%
16 United States 62.7%
17 Canada61.0%
18 Portugal55.8%
19 Czech Republic54.7%
20 Poland48.5%
21 Italy46.8%
22 Latvia44.0%
23 Spain42.0%
24 Chile40.8%
25 Israel38.6%
26 Slovenia30.1%

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 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 1.582159 X +5.825
Correlation coefficient (r)0.494
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.244

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 92602.607833 X -11209.930
Correlation coefficient (r)0.628
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.394

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 4.807408 X +77.728
Correlation coefficient (r)0.306
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.415406 X +1.844
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.284777 X +10.893
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010