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Question: In general, do you think that nuclear power stations are 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 Ireland84.3%
2 Slovenia77.4%
3 Spain74.9%
4 Israel72.3%
5 Norway71.3%
6 New Zealand68.1%
7 Italy67.6%
8 Germany65.4%
9 Poland63.3%
10 Japan 53.9%
11 Australia52.0%
12 Canada50.1%
13 Hungary50.0%
14 United Kingdom47.5%
15 Netherlands46.7%
16 United States44.3%
17 Czech Republic43.5%

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 = 0.283921 X +6.581
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 45285.235440 X +22408.451
Correlation coefficient (r)0.225
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 9.208619 X +75.236
Correlation coefficient (r)0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.327624 X +1.424
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -7.136885 X +13.814
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102