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Question: Suppose you were riding in a car driven by a close friend. You know he is going too fast. He hits a pedestrian. He asks you to tell the police that he was obeying the speed limit. Which statement comes closest to your belief about what your friend has a right to expect from you?
Choices: "My friend has a definite right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit" "My friend has some right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit" "My friend has no right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit"
Data: % of "My friend has a definite right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit" "My friend has some right as a friend to expect me to testify that he was obeying the speed limit"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus50.9%
2 Latvia50.8%
3 Philippines50.1%
4 Russian Federation46.9%
5 Japan40.9%
6 Slovakia39.6%
7 Slovenia37.5%
8 Poland34.8%
9 Bulgaria33.8%
10 Chile29.0%
11 Israel27.6%
12 Norway27.2%
13 Germany26.6%
14 Italy24.8%
15 France24.6%
16 Spain23.7%
17 Austria22.5%
18 Czech Republic22.4%
19 Ireland18.0%
20 Sweden17.2%
21 Switzerland16.9%
22 Canada16.7%
23 Denmark15.7%
24 Australia13.4%
25 Portugal 13.1%
26 United Kingdom13.0%
27 Netherlands12.8%
28 Hungary10.9%
29 New Zealand10.6%

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 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -3.046981 X +7.480
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.617
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.381

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -105223.305617 X +69981.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -14.860468 X +83.953
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.304601 X +1.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 2.685563 X +11.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005