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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" ("True" only for Chile) "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true" ("True" only for Chile)
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany74.4%
2 Japan 68.1%
3 Sweden57.5%
4 Canada57.4%
5 United States49.3%
6 United Kingdom41.2%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.125109 X +7.553
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -30280.492569 X +70670.472
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 9.252807 X +75.935
Correlation coefficient (r)0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.461658 X +1.789
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 9.640968 X +7.427
Correlation coefficient (r)0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148