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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Human beings developed from earlier species of animals"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 91.4%
2 Germany85.3%
3 United Kingdom81.2%
4 Canada73.5%
5 Italy70.4%
6 Australia68.2%
7 United States48.1%

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 = -1.263877 X +7.742
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -60172.710973 X +95629.259
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.702
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.493

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 11.565019 X +72.997
Correlation coefficient (r)0.714
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.510

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.426185 X +1.785
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.883543 X +15.415
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039