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Question: In general, do you think that pesticides and chemicals used in farming are 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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation69.8%
2 Philippines67.4%
3 Italy66.9%
4 Czech Republic66.2%
5 Bulgaria61.8%
6 Spain59.9%
7 Germany59.3%
8 Ireland55.5%
9 Australia52.2%
10 Slovenia52.0%
11 Canada50.5%
12 Japan 46.2%
13 Israel45.6%
14 Hungary41.4%
15 Netherlands41.2%
16 United Kingdom39.2%
16 United States39.2%
18 Poland37.8%
19 New Zealand35.0%
20 Norway28.5%

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 = -2.222491 X +7.734
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -110696.432157 X +100294.148
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -14.966444 X +86.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.329323 X +1.503
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.590916 X +11.413
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011