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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic growth always harm the environment
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 60.3%
2 Italy56.1%
3 Poland48.9%
4 Slovenia47.7%
5 Germany45.5%
6 Spain42.3%
7 Hungary41.5%
8 Czech Republic35.5%
9 Ireland32.4%
10 Netherlands30.1%
11 United Kingdom25.7%
12 Israel25.1%
13 United States21.1%
14 Australia19.7%
15 Canada19.5%
16 Norway18.1%
17 New Zealand17.6%

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 = -2.182882 X +7.507
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.758
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.575

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -114855.647674 X +89580.971
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.696163 X +81.415
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.113581 X +2.008
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -2.411532 X +10.312
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013