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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "All man-made chemicals can cause cancer if you eat enough of them"
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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico88.6%
2 Chile84.9%
3 Spain83.3%
4 Portugal82.8%
5 Austria80.4%
6 Denmark77.8%
7 Germany74.4%
8 Finland72.8%
9 Slovenia72.4%
10 Latvia71.2%
11 Japan 68.1%
12 Switzerland66.5%
13 Israel66.3%
14 Ireland65.5%
15 Czech Republic62.2%
16 Sweden57.5%
17 Canada57.4%
18 Netherlands56.2%
19 United States49.3%
20 Norway49.2%
21 New Zealand44.8%
22 United Kingdom41.2%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -1.074217 X +7.578
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -95657.484738 X +114357.383
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -6.625403 X +85.026
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.245728 X +1.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -6.142943 X +13.875
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075