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Question: Suppose two equally sick people need the same heart operation. One has young children, the other does not have young children. In your opinion who should get the operation first?
Choices: "The one who has young children" "The one who has no young children" "Having young children should make no difference"
Data: % of "The one who has young children"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea65.1%
2 Turkiye56.9%
3 Slovenia51.1%
4 Switzerland49.8%
5 Portugal49.7%
6 Spain49.4%
7 Chile48.1%
8 Poland46.1%
9 United States45.7%
10 Lithuania44.4%
11 Finland44.0%
12 Israel42.7%
13 Italy40.4%
14 Belgium36.4%
15 Australia35.5%
16 Japan 34.6%
17 United Kingdom33.4%
18 Czech Republic33.2%
19 France31.9%
20 Norway31.3%
21 Slovakia30.8%
22 Germany30.0%
23 Denmark26.9%
24 Sweden22.9%
25 Netherlands21.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.609116 X +8.185
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.566
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.320

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -78644.659595 X +75883.742
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.652771 X +81.891
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.616436 X +1.816
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 11.099547 X +8.661
Correlation coefficient (r)0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042