Marriage and divorce rates (per 1000 population) in Austria from year 1970 to 2004:

Source: OECD Index of Statistical Variables – Population, Marriage and Divorce
January 14, 2008 at 9:24 am (OECD, Social, Statistic)
Tags: Austria, divorce, marriage
Marriage and divorce rates (per 1000 population) in Austria from year 1970 to 2004:

Source: OECD Index of Statistical Variables – Population, Marriage and Divorce
January 14, 2008 at 9:23 am (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, OECD, Poll, Social, Sweden, UK)
Tags: eurobarometer, Europe, organ donation
Source: Eurobarometer – Europeans and Organ Donation
Question 1: Would you be willing to donate one of your organs to an organ donation service immediately after your death?
– % of participants say Yes.
Sweden – 81%
Finland – 73%
Belgium – 71%
Denmark – 69%
Netherlands – 69%
France – 67%
Ireland – 67%
Portugal – 66%
UK – 63%
Luxembourg – 62%
Spain – 57%
Greece – 53%
Germany – 46%
Italy – 45%
Austria – 33%
Question 2: If you were asked in a hospital to donate an organ from a deceased close family member, would you agree?
– % of participants say Yes.
Sweden – 74%
Finland – 73%
Netherlands – 66%
Belgium – 65%
Denmark – 63%
Portugal – 63%
UK – 63%
Luxembourg – 62%
France – 61%
Spain – 59%
Ireland – 57%
Greece – 54%
Germany – 46%
Italy – 39%
Austria – 35%
Question 3: Do you already have an organ donation card?
– % of participants say Yes:
Netherlands – 44%
Sweden – 30%
Ireland – 29%
UK- 26%
Denmark – 25%
Finland – 17%
Luxembourg – 14%
Italy – 13%
France – 10%
Germany – 9%
Spain – 7%
Austria – 4%
Belgium – 3%
Greece – 3%
Portugal – 2%
P/S: I thought it would be interesting to see what is the difference between people’s willing to donate their organ and they actually have an organ card. Well, they could have whatever reason to not having the organ donation card yet…
Countries / (% of participants willing to donate organ) – (% of participants have the card)
Netherlands : -25%
Austria : -29%
Italy : -32%
Germany : -37%
UK : -37%
Ireland : -38%
Denmark : -44%
Luxembourg : -48%
Greece : -50%
Spain : -50%
Sweden : -51%
Finland : -56%
France : -57%
Portugal : -64%
Belgium : -68%
January 14, 2008 at 9:19 am (Asia, Picture, Travel)
Tags: Angkor Thom, apsara, Bayon, Cambodia, Picture, Travel, World Heritage Sites
Cambodia 15.11.2007 – Bayon, originally uploaded by micpohling.
We went back to Bayon again on the last day of our trip. Got a little time before the sunset at Phnom Bak Hean. This time, we decided to spend more time looking at the carvings…