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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" ("True" only for Chile) "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true" ("True" only for Chile)
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico88.6%
2 Chile84.9%
3 Spain83.3%
4 Portugal82.8%
5 Austria80.4%
6 Denmark77.8%
7 Germany74.4%
8 Finland72.8%
9 Slovenia72.4%
10 Latvia71.2%
11 Japan 68.1%
12 Switzerland66.5%
13 Israel66.3%
14 Ireland65.5%
15 Czech Republic62.2%
16 Sweden57.5%
17 Canada57.4%
18 Netherlands56.2%
19 United States49.3%
20 Norway49.2%
21 New Zealand44.8%
22 United Kingdom41.2%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -1.763792 X +8.110
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -85766.051446 X +106980.791
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -3.554293 X +83.298
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.009016 X +1.604
Correlation coefficient (r)0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.878120 X +14.122
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010