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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - We worry too much about the future of the environment and not enough about prices and jobs today
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland54.9%
2 Slovenia53.9%
3 Poland49.5%
4 Philippines48.9%
5 Hungary46.7%
6 Italy45.6%
7 Bulgaria45.1%
8 United States41.5%
9 Czech Republic39.8%
10 Spain39.3%
11 United Kingdom39.2%
12 Germany38.7%
13 Israel30.7%
14 New Zealand29.9%
15 Netherlands28.5%
16 Japan 26.6%
17 Norway26.5%
18 Australia25.8%
19 Canada24.7%
20 Russian Federation23.8%

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 = -1.583782 X +7.207
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -62437.609609 X +67796.304
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -13.974885 X +84.523
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.257446 X +1.573
Correlation coefficient (r)0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -13.201431 X +14.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102