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Question: Suppose two equally sick people need the same heart operation. One has young children, the other does not have young children. In your opinion who should get the operation first?
Choices: "The one who has young children" "The one who has no young children" "Having young children should make no difference"
Data: % of "The one who has young children"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea65.1%
2 Turkiye56.9%
3 Slovenia51.1%
4 Switzerland 49.8%
5 Portugal49.7%
6 Spain49.4%
7 Chile48.1%
8 Poland46.1%
9 United States45.7%
10 Lithuania44.4%
11 Finland44.0%
12 Israel42.7%
13 Italy40.4%
14 Belgium36.4%
15 Australia35.5%
16 Japan34.6%
17 United Kingdom33.4%
18 Czech Republic33.2%
19 France31.9%
20 Norway31.3%
21 Slovakia30.8%
22 Germany30.0%
23 Denmark26.9%
24 Sweden22.9%
25 Netherlands21.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.983088 X +7.905
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -71525.342256 X +75151.054
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.807401 X +82.173
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.632929 X +1.765
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 6.955371 X +7.409
Correlation coefficient (r)0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029