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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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway92.4%
2 Finland92.2%
3 Sweden92.1%
4 Denmark90.9%
5 New Zealand89.7%
6 Chile88.2%
7 Ireland86.9%
8 United Kingdom86.5%
9 Canada86.3%
10 Slovenia85.8%
11 Portugal84.4%
12 Switzerland 83.8%
13 Mexico82.4%
14 Austria82.3%
15 United States82.2%
16 Spain80.7%
17 Netherlands80.5%
18 Germany78.4%
19 Israel77.0%
20 Czech Republic75.1%
21 Japan74.6%
22 Latvia68.0%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 3.902218 X +3.595
Correlation coefficient (r)0.538
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.289

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 166291.649089 X -88791.478
Correlation coefficient (r)0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 20.576676 X +63.378
Correlation coefficient (r)0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.875984 X +2.364
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -4.096627 X +13.189
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007