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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in providing health care for the sick?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain52.6%
2 United States50.7%
3 Finland49.2%
4 Canada48.9%
5 Denmark47.7%
6 Switzerland 45.0%
7 Germany40.9%
8 France40.4%
9 Australia38.0%
10 New Zealand37.0%
11 Slovenia36.6%
12 Czech Republic35.7%
13 Netherlands35.1%
14 Norway34.2%
14 Republic of Korea34.2%
16 Israel31.1%
17 Japan27.7%
18 Chile23.4%
19 Ireland19.6%
20 Hungary17.2%
21 Portugal14.8%
22 Poland13.9%
23 Latvia13.1%

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

No data for 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 2.249953 X +5.987
Correlation coefficient (r)0.551
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.304

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 81217.998211 X +20836.102
Correlation coefficient (r)0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 12.215226 X +76.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.478
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.032429 X +1.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.253360 X +10.992
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002