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Question: In general, do you think that air pollution caused by cars 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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal84.3%
2 Chile83.7%
3 Mexico76.8%
4 Japan 73.9%
5 Spain72.2%
6 Czech Republic72.1%
7 New Zealand59.3%
8 Slovenia58.9%
9 Israel58.7%
10 Canada57.0%
11 Switzerland56.6%
12 United Kingdom55.7%
13 Germany51.4%
14 Sweden50.9%
15 Ireland50.4%
16 Austria49.7%
17 United States49.3%
18 Latvia45.1%
19 Denmark43.5%
20 Norway43.1%
21 Finland31.7%
22 Netherlands31.4%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.219956 X +8.126
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.713
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.508

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -105056.802103 X +110282.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.587
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.345

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -4.109346 X +82.936
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.144922 X +1.714
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -8.627976 X +14.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178