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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" ("True" only for Chile) "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true" ("True" only for Chile)
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico88.6%
2 Chile84.9%
3 Bulgaria83.9%
4 Spain83.3%
5 Portugal82.8%
6 Austria80.4%
7 Russian Federation78.6%
8 Denmark77.8%
9 Germany74.4%
10 Finland72.8%
11 Slovenia72.4%
12 Latvia71.2%
13 Philippines68.3%
14 Japan 68.1%
15 Switzerland66.5%
16 Israel66.3%
17 Ireland65.5%
18 Czech Republic62.2%
19 Sweden57.5%
20 Canada57.4%
21 Netherlands56.2%
22 United States49.3%
23 Norway49.2%
24 New Zealand44.8%
25 United Kingdom41.2%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.762714 X +7.929
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -109169.005019 X +119996.527
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.515
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.265

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12.199677 X +87.641
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.338
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.272735 X +1.854
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.897478 X +12.472
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016