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Question: Is it just or unjust ? right or wrong ? that people with higher incomes can buy better health care than people with lower incomes?
Choices: "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right" "Neither just nor unjust, mixed feelings" "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Data: % of "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal91.9%
2 France86.4%
3 Spain83.6%
4 Austria81.7%
5 Hungary80.4%
6 Cyprus79.6%
7 Germany76.6%
8 Sweden76.1%
9 Bulgaria71.3%
10 Czech Republic69.4%
11 Slovenia66.4%
12 Norway64.7%
13 Slovakia63.0%
14 Japan62.5%
15 Israel61.9%
16 Canada60.1%
17 Poland 59.2%
18 Latvia56.1%
19 New Zealand52.1%
20 Chile52.0%
21 Russian Federation51.2%
22 United States49.6%
23 Australia48.3%
24 United Kingdom37.4%
25 Philippines15.0%

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 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.196936 X +6.446
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 12509.432141 X +29295.557
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 8.273492 X +74.181
Correlation coefficient (r)0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.821603 X +2.143
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.395
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.156

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 4.636396 X +9.359
Correlation coefficient (r)0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024