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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria91.0%
2 Norway86.1%
3 Slovenia82.5%
4 Australia81.5%
5 Ireland80.4%
6 Hungary79.8%
6 New Zealand79.8%
8 Spain79.7%
9 Russian Federation79.1%
10 Poland77.8%
11 Italy76.2%
12 United States75.6%
13 Czech Republic73.9%
14 Canada73.3%
15 Netherlands73.2%
16 United Kingdom72.5%
17 Germany70.6%
18 Philippines 69.7%
19 Israel69.4%
20 Japan68.6%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.358042 X +8.467
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 20111.719557 X +27197.737
Correlation coefficient (r)0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -10.286408 X +87.524
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.430810 X +3.498
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 21.342033 X -4.606
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060