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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "All radioactivity is made by humans"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria84.2%
2 Poland82.3%
3 Spain79.1%
4 Philippines72.9%
5 Slovenia72.3%
6 Russian Federation70.0%
7 Japan 65.3%
8 Hungary58.4%
9 Italy58.1%
10 Ireland56.2%
11 Israel52.4%
12 Norway50.3%
13 Germany46.8%
14 Czech Republic41.6%
15 New Zealand40.8%
16 Netherlands40.6%
17 United Kingdom38.0%
18 United States37.6%
19 Canada29.9%
20 Australia28.9%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.080657 X +7.755
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -91737.531751 X +94799.594
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.570
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.325

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -12.716574 X +86.245
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.149209 X +1.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.431729 X +10.934
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010