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Question: What do you think about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than his or her husband or wife?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines 87.8%
2 Uruguay80.2%
3 Ireland80.1%
4 New Zealand75.5%
5 Poland74.0%
6 Spain72.9%
7 Israel72.8%
8 Norway69.7%
9 Canada68.4%
10 Switzerland68.1%
11 Austria67.4%
12 United States66.9%
13 Italy66.8%
14 Netherlands62.8%
15 Hungary62.2%
16 Australia59.0%
17 Japan58.1%
18 Slovenia57.1%
19 Germany56.7%
20 Bulgaria50.9%
21 Czech Republic43.2%
22 Russian Federation36.2%

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

No data for 216 countries.

Source
ISSP 1994

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.444227 X +5.748
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 47774.307145 X +12910.716
Correlation coefficient (r)0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 6.503366 X +75.457
Correlation coefficient (r)0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.041688 X +0.947
Correlation coefficient (r)0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -21.715255 X +26.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.505
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.255