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Question: In general, do you think that pollution of the country's rivers, lakes and streams 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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation85.1%
2 Czech Republic84.5%
3 Australia83.1%
4 Bulgaria80.6%
5 Poland78.5%
6 Germany78.3%
7 Italy76.4%
8 Spain74.7%
9 Canada74.6%
10 Slovenia73.9%
11 Ireland71.7%
12 Philippines70.1%
13 United States68.2%
14 Japan 67.7%
15 New Zealand63.3%
16 United Kingdom61.9%
17 Israel61.4%
18 Hungary57.0%
19 Netherlands46.4%
20 Norway44.2%

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 = -2.069485 X +8.055
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.456
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.208

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -105280.124479 X +117862.811
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -12.320991 X +87.850
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.577605 X +2.075
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 5.154352 X +5.977
Correlation coefficient (r)0.142
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020