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Question: Suppose two equally sick people need the same heart operation. One does not smoke, the other is a heavy smoker.@In your opinion who should get the operation first?
Choices: "The non-smoker" "Their smoking habits should make no difference"
Data: % of "The non-smoker"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia67.1%
2 United Kingdom63.0%
2 United States63.0%
4 China58.3%
5 Philippines53.0%
6 Taiwan52.0%
7 Netherlands51.6%
8 Czech Republic49.5%
9 South Africa47.7%
10 Belgium47.6%
11 Finland43.8%
12 Denmark42.7%
13 Sweden42.5%
14 Turkiye42.2%
15 Republic of Korea38.0%
16 Spain37.2%
17 Norway36.6%
18 France36.3%
19 Slovakia35.4%
20 Chile35.2%
21 Poland35.0%
22 Switzerland33.7%
23 Slovenia31.8%
24 Israel31.7%
25 Croatia28.7%
26 Lithuania28.4%
27 Japan 27.3%
28 Germany27.0%
29 Italy25.7%
30 Bulgaria25.6%
31 Portugal25.5%
32 Russian Federation21.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.172433 X +6.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 39890.461672 X +22060.334
Correlation coefficient (r)0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -0.228054 X +78.894
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.635523 X +1.379
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -3.029808 X +11.743
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005