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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic progress in the country will slow down unless we look after the environment better
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico71.9%
2 Portugal67.7%
3 Chile63.5%
4 Slovenia57.4%
5 Spain57.2%
6 Ireland56.5%
7 Latvia54.6%
8 Canada54.1%
9 Sweden51.7%
10 Israel51.2%
11 United States50.8%
12 Austria50.3%
13 Denmark50.2%
14 Germany47.0%
15 Japan 46.3%
16 United Kingdom45.5%
17 New Zealand45.0%
18 Czech Republic43.4%
19 Finland42.6%
20 Norway37.0%
21 Switzerland35.2%
22 Netherlands21.1%

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 = -2.192929 X +7.956
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.522
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.272

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -122734.815286 X +111697.611
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -13.827396 X +87.506
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.045210 X +1.608
Correlation coefficient (r)0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.770035 X +12.648
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044