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Question: How often do you make a special effort to sort glass or tins or plastic or newspapers and so on for recycling?
Choices: "Always" "Often" "Sometimes" "Never" "Recycling not available where I live"
Data: % of "Always"
Period:
Area:
36 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Belgium87.0%
2 France80.8%
3 Germany80.1%
4 Canada79.1%
5 Switzerland77.9%
6 Australia75.3%
7 New Zealand73.5%
8 United Kingdom73.1%
9 Austria72.6%
10 Finland63.8%
11 Republic of Korea63.5%
12 Slovenia62.7%
13 Sweden61.8%
14 Netherlands60.2%
15 Denmark58.0%
16 Japan 56.6%
17 Spain55.5%
18 Norway55.2%
19 Iceland50.5%
20 Portugal49.6%
21 Taiwan48.1%
22 Slovakia42.1%
23 Czech Republic41.0%
24 United States40.4%
25 Philippines31.8%
26 Israel25.6%
27 Mexico22.3%
28 Lithuania21.1%
29 Argentina21.0%
30 Latvia20.2%
31 Croatia16.4%
32 Bulgaria12.7%
33 Chile11.7%
34 Turkiye9.7%
35 South Africa8.0%
36 Russian Federation5.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 202 countries.

Source
ISSP 2010

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 1.538269 X +5.868
Correlation coefficient (r)0.596
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.355

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 63130.196355 X +9624.765
Correlation coefficient (r)0.633
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.401

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = 16.131912 X +71.013
Correlation coefficient (r)0.765
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.585

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -0.509269 X +1.914
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -1.372567 X +11.456
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005