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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" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland95.5%
2 Bulgaria84.9%
3 Spain84.3%
4 Italy75.8%
5 Slovenia75.7%
6 Germany72.7%
7 Philippines 70.8%
7 Russian Federation70.8%
9 Ireland68.5%
10 Japan65.5%
11 Hungary63.5%
12 Czech Republic63.3%
13 Israel62.6%
14 United States53.0%
15 Canada51.0%
16 Netherlands47.1%
16 New Zealand47.1%
18 Norway46.8%
19 United Kingdom44.3%
20 Australia35.9%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.632823 X +8.334
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.654
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.428

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -93016.436690 X +102179.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -10.098443 X +86.058
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.395
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.156

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.227183 X +1.770
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.178776 X +12.589
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001