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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "All man-made chemicals can cause cancer if you eat enough of them"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland95.5%
2 Spain84.3%
3 Italy75.8%
4 Slovenia75.7%
5 Germany72.7%
6 Ireland68.5%
7 Japan 65.5%
8 Hungary63.5%
9 Czech Republic63.3%
10 Israel62.6%
11 United States53.0%
12 Canada51.0%
13 Netherlands47.1%
13 New Zealand47.1%
15 Norway46.8%
16 United Kingdom44.3%
17 Australia35.9%

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

No data for 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.407485 X +7.625
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -71641.257068 X +95482.404
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.488
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.238

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -3.560854 X +83.452
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.557991 X +1.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -4.601217 X +12.328
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064