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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" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy75.8%
2 Germany72.7%
3 Japan 65.5%
4 United States53.0%
5 Canada51.0%
6 United Kingdom44.3%
7 Australia35.9%

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

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.545333 X +7.686
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.570
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.325

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -51834.190455 X +80579.107
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.637
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.406

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.455425 X +80.729
Correlation coefficient (r)0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.617095 X +1.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.631
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.398

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -3.060300 X +13.541
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017