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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses"
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 Norway92.4%
2 Finland92.2%
3 Sweden92.1%
4 Denmark90.9%
5 New Zealand89.7%
6 Chile88.2%
7 Ireland86.9%
8 United Kingdom86.5%
9 Canada86.3%
10 Russian Federation85.8%
10 Slovenia85.8%
12 Bulgaria84.7%
13 Portugal84.4%
14 Switzerland83.8%
15 Mexico82.4%
16 Austria82.3%
17 United States82.2%
18 Spain80.7%
19 Netherlands80.5%
20 Germany78.4%
21 Israel77.0%
22 Czech Republic75.1%
23 Japan 74.6%
23 Philippines74.6%
25 Latvia68.0%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 3.843251 X +3.522
Correlation coefficient (r)0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 181026.303523 X -105407.742
Correlation coefficient (r)0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 25.190788 X +58.314
Correlation coefficient (r)0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.883938 X +3.240
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 5.568211 X +5.171
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007