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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany45.9%
2 Sweden40.7%
3 United States33.8%
4 Australia24.8%
5 Canada23.5%
6 United Kingdom19.9%
7 Japan17.5%
8 Republic of Korea16.8%
9 France 15.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.164101 X +6.117
Correlation coefficient (r)0.568
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.323

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 65890.671732 X +33104.441
Correlation coefficient (r)0.511
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.261

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.263949 X +84.103
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.980125 X +1.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.638457 X +13.878
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041