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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria91.0%
2 Norway86.1%
3 Slovenia82.5%
4 Australia81.5%
5 Ireland80.4%
6 Hungary79.8%
6 New Zealand79.8%
8 Spain79.7%
9 Russian Federation79.1%
10 Poland77.8%
11 Italy76.2%
12 United States75.6%
13 Czech Republic73.9%
14 Canada73.3%
15 Netherlands73.2%
16 United Kingdom72.5%
17 Germany70.6%
18 Philippines69.7%
19 Israel69.4%
20 Japan 68.6%

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 = -1.781578 X +7.978
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 54924.715368 X +1771.246
Correlation coefficient (r)0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -12.246530 X +88.649
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.660532 X +3.720
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 13.803808 X -1.044
Correlation coefficient (r)0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037