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Question: Suppose two equally sick people need the same heart operation. One has young children, the other does not have young children. In your opinion who should get the operation first?
Choices: "The one who has young children" "The one who has no young children" "Having young children should make no difference"
Data: % of "The one who has young children"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines74.5%
2 China70.2%
3 Republic of Korea65.1%
4 Taiwan62.0%
5 Turkiye56.9%
6 Slovenia51.1%
7 Switzerland49.8%
8 Portugal49.7%
9 Spain49.4%
10 South Africa48.8%
11 Chile48.1%
12 Croatia47.9%
13 Poland46.1%
14 United States45.7%
15 Lithuania44.4%
16 Finland 44.0%
17 Israel42.7%
18 Russian Federation40.5%
19 Italy40.4%
20 Belgium36.4%
21 Bulgaria35.9%
22 Australia35.5%
23 Japan34.6%
24 United Kingdom33.4%
25 Czech Republic33.2%
26 France31.9%
27 Norway31.3%
28 Slovakia30.8%
29 Germany30.0%
30 Denmark26.9%
31 Sweden22.9%
32 Netherlands21.4%

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 = -3.079408 X +7.849
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.522
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.272

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -87404.668817 X +75442.547
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -10.937194 X +83.888
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.424203 X +1.443
Correlation coefficient (r)0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -2.014648 X +14.170
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002