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Question: Suppose two equally sick people need the same heart operation. One has young children, the other does not have young children. In your opinion who should get the operation first?
Choices: "The one who has young children" "The one who has no young children" "Having young children should make no difference"
Data: % of "The one who has young children"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines74.5%
2 China70.2%
3 Republic of Korea65.1%
4 Taiwan62.0%
5 Turkiye56.9%
6 Slovenia51.1%
7 Switzerland49.8%
8 Portugal49.7%
9 Spain49.4%
10 South Africa48.8%
11 Chile48.1%
12 Croatia47.9%
13 Poland46.1%
14 United States45.7%
15 Lithuania44.4%
16 Finland44.0%
17 Israel42.7%
18 Russian Federation40.5%
19 Italy40.4%
20 Belgium36.4%
21 Bulgaria35.9%
22 Australia35.5%
23 Japan 34.6%
24 United Kingdom33.4%
25 Czech Republic33.2%
26 France31.9%
27 Norway31.3%
28 Slovakia30.8%
29 Germany30.0%
30 Denmark26.9%
31 Sweden22.9%
32 Netherlands21.4%

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 = -2.438873 X +7.581
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -88369.117815 X +76219.480
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -11.992856 X +83.908
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.100370 X +1.589
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -1.240337 X +11.067
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001