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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "If someone is exposed to any amount of radioactivity, they are certain to die as a result"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" ("True" only for Chile) "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true" ("True" only for Chile)
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile87.6%
2 Portugal82.4%
3 Mexico78.1%
4 Russian Federation70.1%
5 Philippines 67.2%
6 Israel67.1%
7 Bulgaria66.3%
8 Spain60.5%
9 Ireland49.5%
10 Netherlands49.4%
11 Latvia48.3%
12 Slovenia45.4%
13 Austria45.1%
14 Germany42.9%
15 Czech Republic41.7%
16 Switzerland39.6%
17 Denmark38.0%
18 Japan36.6%
19 Sweden36.1%
20 United Kingdom33.6%
21 Canada33.3%
22 United States30.2%
23 New Zealand29.8%
24 Norway26.2%
25 Finland20.1%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.540236 X +8.012
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.684
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.468

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -91418.254896 X +89513.362
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.637
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.406

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.338299 X +84.436
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.465
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.216

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.683366 X +1.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -7.999347 X +16.132
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088