Sex and the Citizen

The Economist just reported on a rather prurient piece of information on the level of promiscuity of their citizens. Quite interesting:

 

There is obviously no way of confirming this, but I was bit nervous of relying on those tiny snippets so went looking for the original paper itself. Here are the details of the mean scores and the standard deviations:

Nation	Mean	SD
Argentina	40.74	28.38
Australia	37.29	23.87
Austria	45.73	31.23
Bangladesh	19.67	17.59
Belgium	32.82	18.81
Bolivia	40.9	32.87
Botswana	27.02	26.78
Brazil	37.93	31.51
Canada	34.52	22.58
Congo,	32.43	22.68
Croatia	42.98	26.46
Czech	37.52	24.01
Estonia	39.95	29.73
Ethiopia	26.55	25.63
Fiji	38.58	33.34
Finland	50.5	32.47
France	36.67	23.03
Germany	39.68	24.95
Greece	32.38	16.21
Hong	22.9	16.85
Israel	40.95	26.98
Italy	34.37	26.75
Japan	24.1	18.51
Latvia	43.93	25.44
Lebanon	28.57	25.26
Lithuania	46.1	30.68
Malta	31.27	24.17
Mexico	35.69	23.29
Morocco	39.31	36.85
Netherlands	39.34	25.07
New Zealand	47.69	31.52
Peru	34.59	30.35
Philippines	32.1	28.58
Poland	34.21	25.39
Portugal	29.55	18.37
Romania	32.16	29.87
Serbia	38.72	24.08
Slovakia	34.9	24.55
Slovenia	46.26	25.71
South Korea	22.21	14.8
Spain	33.72	20.64
Switzerland	39.13	22.3
Taiwan	19.22	17.64
Turkey	36.06	31.38
Ukraine	32.27	27.03
Ukraine	40.17	29.27
USA	37.05	25.77
Zimbabwe	22.66	26.07
Total	35.31	26.05

 

An interesting study, wouldn't you say? They do some tests on the correlation between national factors and promiscuity and come up with some interesting correlations.

• Higher the incidence of childhood mortality, low birth rate, teen pregnancy rate, fertility rate and child malnutrition, the lower is the promiscuity levels...
• higher the human development index and the life expectancy, higher the promiscuity levels....

So what happens if we check the differences between men's and women's promiscuity with cultural factors? Well, across a range of factors ranging from % women in parliament, % women in ministerial positions, gender development
index, women’s wage equality; % women-headed households; % women using contraception; women’s mean age at marriage; divorce rate; etc. etc., higher the women's emancipation, higher is the promiscuity factor. And across the board, the men have lower correlation figures than men. Go figure (the men are sulking..)

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