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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 "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines65.9%
2 United Kingdom42.2%
3 Chile37.0%
4 Russian Federation31.6%
5 Latvia31.5%
6 Australia30.4%
7 New Zealand28.2%
7 United States28.2%
9 Israel26.3%
10 Poland23.2%
11 Canada22.1%
12 Bulgaria20.7%
13 Slovenia19.2%
14 Norway19.0%
15 Slovakia18.8%
16 Japan18.6%
17 Czech Republic15.4%
18 Germany11.5%
19 Sweden10.6%
20 Spain8.6%
21 Austria8.0%
22 Hungary6.9%
23 Cyprus6.6%
24 Portugal 3.2%
25 France2.2%

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 = -0.603290 X +6.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -31437.659515 X +44023.057
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -11.482584 X +81.925
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.142192 X +1.373
Correlation coefficient (r)0.456
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.208

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -7.630874 X +13.956
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045