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Question: On the whole, do you think it should or should not be the government's responsibility to impose strict laws to make industry do less damage to the environment?
Choices: "Definately should be" "Probably should be" "Probably should not be" "Definately should not be"
Data: % of "Definately should be" "Probably should be"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland97.8%
2 Spain97.0%
3 Portugal96.9%
4 France96.5%
5 Ireland96.0%
6 Hungary95.8%
7 Denmark95.7%
8 Chile95.4%
9 Slovenia95.3%
10 Australia95.1%
11 Germany94.2%
12 Canada93.7%
13 Republic of Korea93.3%
14 New Zealand92.4%
15 Norway92.3%
16 Latvia91.4%
17 United States91.3%
18 Czech Republic89.9%
19 Japan 89.8%
20 Finland89.6%
21 Switzerland89.5%
22 Israel86.6%
23 Netherlands86.2%

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 15 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -6.494340 X +12.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -198927.356086 X +233862.747
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -13.004090 X +92.844
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -4.355404 X +5.647
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -12.291495 X +22.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013