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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "If someone is exposed to any amount of radioactivity, they are certain to die as a result"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland75.2%
2 Italy71.0%
3 Bulgaria70.5%
4 Israel68.3%
5 Philippines63.9%
6 Spain60.9%
7 Russian Federation60.8%
8 Ireland60.4%
9 Slovenia46.3%
10 Netherlands42.4%
11 Czech Republic41.9%
12 Japan 39.9%
13 United Kingdom34.1%
14 Germany34.0%
15 New Zealand31.4%
16 United States27.3%
17 Hungary25.3%
18 Norway23.2%
19 Australia22.7%
20 Canada22.0%

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 = -1.191817 X +7.154
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -65673.510288 X +74341.570
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -8.918260 X +83.324
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.482641 X +1.448
Correlation coefficient (r)0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -7.874120 X +13.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120