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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway86.1%
2 Slovenia82.5%
3 Australia81.5%
4 Ireland80.4%
5 Hungary79.8%
5 New Zealand79.8%
7 Spain79.7%
8 Poland77.8%
9 Italy76.2%
10 United States75.6%
11 Czech Republic73.9%
12 Canada73.3%
13 Netherlands73.2%
14 United Kingdom72.5%
15 Germany70.6%
16 Israel69.4%
17 Japan 68.6%

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 = 0.283684 X +6.622
Correlation coefficient (r)0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 99276.915575 X -27360.670
Correlation coefficient (r)0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -3.746455 X +83.790
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -2.207881 X +3.274
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 17.780190 X -1.859
Correlation coefficient (r)0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056