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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland52.1%
2 New Zealand51.1%
3 Germany45.9%
4 Finland44.3%
5 Denmark43.1%
6 Ireland41.8%
7 Sweden40.7%
8 Norway35.3%
9 United States33.8%
10 Netherlands30.5%
11 Poland30.3%
12 Czech Republic29.6%
13 Spain28.9%
14 Slovenia26.0%
15 Australia24.8%
16 Latvia24.7%
17 Canada23.5%
18 Israel21.8%
19 United Kingdom19.9%
20 Chile18.1%
21 Japan 17.5%
22 Hungary17.3%
23 Republic of Korea16.8%
24 France15.8%
25 Portugal14.7%

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 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.746236 X +5.958
Correlation coefficient (r)0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 128779.173126 X +10256.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.578
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.334

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 4.833061 X +79.385
Correlation coefficient (r)0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.166871 X +1.544
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.634563 X +11.277
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.087
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008