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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:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland95.5%
2 Spain84.3%
3 Italy75.8%
4 Slovenia75.7%
5 Germany72.7%
6 Ireland68.5%
7 Japan 65.5%
8 Hungary63.5%
9 Czech Republic63.3%
10 Israel62.6%
11 United States53.0%
12 Canada51.0%
13 Netherlands47.1%
13 New Zealand47.1%
15 Norway46.8%
16 United Kingdom44.3%
17 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 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.872716 X +7.999
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -73966.694984 X +94407.967
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -4.568000 X +83.752
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.388912 X +1.826
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.938405 X +12.328
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002