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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to impose strict laws to make industry do less damage to the environment?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Viet Nam98.2%
2 Poland97.8%
3 Spain97.0%
4 Portugal96.9%
5 France96.5%
6 Ireland96.0%
6 Tajikistan96.0%
8 Croatia95.8%
8 Hungary95.8%
10 Denmark95.7%
10 Russian Federation95.7%
12 Chile95.4%
13 Slovenia95.3%
14 Australia95.1%
15 Uzbekistan94.4%
16 Germany94.2%
17 Canada93.7%
17 Uruguay93.7%
19 Dominican Republic93.5%
20 Republic of Korea93.3%
21 New Zealand92.4%
22 Norway92.3%
23 Latvia91.4%
24 United States91.3%
25 Czech Republic89.9%
26 Japan 89.8%
27 Finland89.6%
27 Syrian Arab Republic89.6%
29 Switzerland89.5%
30 South Africa89.1%
31 Philippines88.4%
32 Israel86.6%
33 Netherlands86.2%

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

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -5.820779 X +11.950
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -196418.380455 X +220839.904
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.864368 X +74.292
Correlation coefficient (r)0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -4.518921 X +6.020
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -4.934227 X +15.159
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001