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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden92.1%
2 United Kingdom86.5%
3 Canada 86.3%
4 United States82.2%
5 Germany78.4%
6 Japan74.6%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 6.001038 X +1.748
Correlation coefficient (r)0.913
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.834

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 86978.185499 X -19889.818
Correlation coefficient (r)0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.417563 X +81.698
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.336201 X +0.420
Correlation coefficient (r)0.586
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.343

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.181703 X +12.587
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002