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Question: How willing would you be to accept cuts in your standard of living in order to protect the environment?
Choices: "Very willing" "Fairly willing" "Neither willing nor unwilling" "Fairly unwilling" "Very unwilling"
Data: % of "Very willing" "Fairly willing"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy52.2%
2 Norway50.7%
3 Netherlands48.2%
4 Germany47.2%
5 Spain44.9%
6 Japan 44.2%
7 Canada44.1%
8 Australia41.6%
9 New Zealand35.9%
10 United States34.1%
11 Israel33.8%
12 Slovenia31.6%
13 United Kingdom29.8%
14 Ireland29.4%
15 Poland25.4%
16 Czech Republic19.5%
17 Hungary12.3%

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 = 0.966257 X +6.398
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 79613.329747 X +20650.312
Correlation coefficient (r)0.344
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 20.230512 X +73.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.763
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.582

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.892063 X +1.951
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -7.019198 X +12.060
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075