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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "All radioactivity is made by humans"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland82.3%
2 Spain79.1%
3 Slovenia72.3%
4 Japan65.3%
5 Hungary58.4%
6 Italy58.1%
7 Ireland56.2%
8 Israel52.4%
9 Norway50.3%
10 Germany46.8%
11 Czech Republic41.6%
12 New Zealand40.8%
13 Netherlands 40.6%
14 United Kingdom38.0%
15 United States37.6%
16 Canada29.9%
17 Australia28.9%

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

No data for 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.945283 X +7.845
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.690
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.476

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -64160.299954 X +81769.082
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.455
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.207

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -2.028423 X +81.972
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.416203 X +1.800
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 1.176625 X +11.139
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003