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Question: How willing would you be to pay much higher taxes in order to protect the environment?
Choices: "Very willing" "Fairly willing" "Neither willing nor unwilling" "Fairly unwilling" "Very unwilling"
Data: % of "Very willing" "Fairly willing"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands48.5%
2 Russian Federation47.4%
3 Israel44.8%
4 Japan 44.2%
5 Spain43.7%
6 United States40.2%
7 Bulgaria39.3%
8 United Kingdom38.6%
9 Italy38.4%
10 Australia38.0%
11 Canada37.3%
12 New Zealand34.0%
13 Poland33.6%
14 Slovenia33.4%
15 Norway31.1%
16 Philippines27.2%
17 Germany26.4%
18 Ireland23.9%
19 Czech Republic16.9%
20 Hungary16.5%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.121405 X +6.563
Correlation coefficient (r)0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1517.440923 X +43548.816
Correlation coefficient (r)0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 9.089997 X +76.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.540313 X +1.861
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 6.551237 X +7.285
Correlation coefficient (r)0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021