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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia81.5%
2 Italy76.2%
3 United States75.6%
4 Canada73.3%
5 United Kingdom72.5%
6 Germany70.6%
7 Japan 68.6%

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 = 4.860434 X +3.208
Correlation coefficient (r)0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 147110.407107 X -57831.891
Correlation coefficient (r)0.513
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.263

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.758457 X +85.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.936533 X +0.777
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -12.922847 X +21.368
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025