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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - It is right to use animals for medical testing if it might save human lives
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain76.2%
2 Mexico71.0%
3 Portugal70.0%
4 Slovenia69.5%
5 Canada68.8%
6 Latvia68.5%
7 Czech Republic65.8%
8 Denmark65.0%
9 Norway64.7%
10 Germany64.0%
11 Sweden 63.7%
12 Austria62.3%
13 Israel60.2%
14 Finland59.4%
15 Switzerland58.3%
16 Ireland57.8%
17 United States56.6%
18 New Zealand55.4%
19 Netherlands54.7%
20 United Kingdom51.2%
21 Chile41.4%
22 Japan30.8%

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 = 0.620288 X +6.483
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -14565.776752 X +59159.810
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -8.554264 X +85.783
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.152114 X +1.539
Correlation coefficient (r)0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -4.021284 X +12.203
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018