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Question: In general, do you think that air pollution caused by cars is for the environment...
Choices: "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous" "somewhat dangerous" "not very dangerous" "not dangerous at all"
Data: % of "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines85.0%
2 Portugal84.3%
3 Chile83.7%
4 Mexico76.8%
5 Russian Federation76.4%
6 Japan 73.9%
7 Spain72.2%
8 Czech Republic72.1%
9 New Zealand59.3%
10 Slovenia58.9%
11 Israel58.7%
12 Canada57.0%
13 Switzerland56.6%
14 United Kingdom55.7%
15 Germany51.4%
16 Sweden50.9%
17 Ireland50.4%
18 Bulgaria49.8%
19 Austria49.7%
20 United States49.3%
21 Latvia45.1%
22 Denmark43.5%
23 Norway43.1%
24 Finland31.7%
25 Netherlands31.4%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.265694 X +8.057
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.616
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.379

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -110584.495575 X +110490.959
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.466688 X +85.469
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.339
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.115

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.357322 X +1.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -6.084845 X +13.387
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054