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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:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic84.5%
2 Australia83.1%
3 Poland78.5%
4 Germany78.3%
5 Italy76.4%
6 Spain74.7%
7 Canada74.6%
8 Slovenia73.9%
9 Ireland71.7%
10 United States68.2%
11 Japan 67.7%
12 New Zealand63.3%
13 United Kingdom61.9%
14 Israel61.4%
15 Hungary57.0%
16 Netherlands46.4%
17 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 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.132650 X +7.530
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -82256.159508 X +106323.606
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -2.029843 X +82.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.565576 X +2.011
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.166
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.879139 X +10.082
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001