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Question: How successful do you think the government in [Country] is nowadays in protecting the environment?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland52.1%
2 New Zealand51.1%
3 Uruguay49.6%
4 Germany45.9%
5 Finland44.3%
6 Denmark43.1%
7 Ireland41.8%
8 Sweden40.7%
8 Venezuela40.7%
10 Philippines38.3%
11 Norway35.3%
12 South Africa34.8%
13 United States33.8%
14 Netherlands30.5%
15 Dominican Republic30.3%
15 Poland30.3%
17 Taiwan30.0%
18 Czech Republic29.6%
19 Spain28.9%
20 Slovenia26.0%
21 Australia24.8%
22 Latvia24.7%
23 Canada23.5%
24 Israel21.8%
25 United Kingdom19.9%
26 Croatia19.3%
27 Chile18.1%
28 Japan 17.5%
29 Hungary17.3%
30 Republic of Korea16.8%
31 France15.8%
32 Portugal14.7%
33 Russian Federation9.3%

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

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.098280 X +5.947
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 82917.666453 X +15196.722
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.366759 X +78.235
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.559744 X +1.519
Correlation coefficient (r)0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -5.881217 X +12.624
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018