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Question: Suppose two equally sick people need the same heart operation. One does not smoke, the other is a heavy smoker.@In your opinion who should get the operation first?
Choices: "The non-smoker" "Their smoking habits should make no difference"
Data: % of "The non-smoker"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia67.1%
2 United Kingdom63.0%
2 United States63.0%
4 China58.3%
5 Philippines53.0%
6 Taiwan52.0%
7 Netherlands51.6%
8 Czech Republic49.5%
9 South Africa47.7%
10 Belgium47.6%
11 Finland 43.8%
12 Denmark42.7%
13 Sweden42.5%
14 Turkiye42.2%
15 Republic of Korea38.0%
16 Spain37.2%
17 Norway36.6%
18 France36.3%
19 Slovakia35.4%
20 Chile35.2%
21 Poland35.0%
22 Switzerland33.7%
23 Slovenia31.8%
24 Israel31.7%
25 Croatia28.7%
26 Lithuania28.4%
27 Japan27.3%
28 Germany27.0%
29 Italy25.7%
30 Bulgaria25.6%
31 Portugal25.5%
32 Russian Federation21.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.329838 X +5.986
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 39214.970850 X +21970.855
Correlation coefficient (r)0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -1.127761 X +79.681
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.665251 X +1.359
Correlation coefficient (r)0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -10.361081 X +17.431
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040