Business people? It would be interesting to see how the questions were posed and the answers analyzed. Corruption is a pretty big term. What practices were being identified in the survey?

Corruption implies a departure from a "moral" standard. What was the ideal against which corruption was being measured here? Some cultures, for example Mexico, have a long tradition of palm-greasing as an honorable component of doing business. Is this included in "corruption"? And if we're talking countries, corruption would have to be measured against a baseline of explicit ideals -- a perspective from which our own country has wandered pretty far in many ways. But non-idealistic, pragmatic, opportunism is widely esteemed in the business community as a good stance for getting profitable business done -- short-sighted perhaps but generally accepted.

I'd like to see the definitions and statistics.