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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark85.2%
2 Austria82.2%
3 Switzerland81.8%
4 Netherlands78.6%
5 Norway78.4%
6 Germany76.8%
7 Ireland73.9%
8 Hungary71.3%
9 New Zealand71.0%
10 Canada70.1%
11 France67.2%
12 United States66.8%
13 Japan 65.6%
14 Sweden64.4%
15 Australia64.3%
16 Finland62.9%
17 Republic of Korea61.6%
18 United Kingdom61.5%
19 Czech Republic55.7%
20 Belgium54.7%
21 Latvia54.0%
22 Israel52.9%
23 Slovenia46.9%
24 Slovakia46.5%
25 Portugal46.0%
26 Spain45.6%
27 Chile45.1%
28 Mexico40.7%
29 Poland40.2%

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

No data for 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 2.636649 X +5.167
Correlation coefficient (r)0.631
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.398

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 131445.754234 X -35805.401
Correlation coefficient (r)0.748
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.560

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 8.548752 X +75.311
Correlation coefficient (r)0.431
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.186

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.328331 X +1.782
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 4.425446 X +10.390
Correlation coefficient (r)0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016