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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses"
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 Sweden92.1%
2 United Kingdom86.5%
3 Canada86.3%
4 United States82.2%
5 Germany78.4%
6 Japan 74.6%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 5.831254 X +2.040
Correlation coefficient (r)0.813
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.661

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 77084.828546 X -11137.371
Correlation coefficient (r)0.467
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.218

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -6.453246 X +86.679
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.206883 X +0.516
Correlation coefficient (r)0.591
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.349

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -12.630647 X +23.544
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069