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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - It is right to use animals for medical testing if it might save human lives
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria87.5%
2 Czech Republic82.8%
3 Slovenia78.8%
4 Hungary78.3%
4 Poland78.3%
6 Russian Federation78.2%
7 Spain72.1%
8 Israel71.2%
9 Norway69.2%
10 United States66.1%
11 Philippines63.5%
12 Canada61.4%
13 Germany59.4%
14 Australia58.5%
15 New Zealand58.4%
16 Ireland58.0%
17 United Kingdom54.3%
18 Italy52.8%
19 Netherlands51.4%
20 Japan 35.0%

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 = -1.077628 X +7.314
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -74035.176841 X +92768.032
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.342
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.117

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -21.476759 X +93.338
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.449724 X +1.375
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.543413 X +6.602
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019