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Question: In general, do you think that air pollution caused by industry 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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile91.5%
2 Portugal86.4%
3 Spain83.4%
4 Mexico82.7%
5 Germany81.6%
6 Austria77.3%
7 Czech Republic76.0%
8 Japan74.5%
9 Slovenia73.8%
10 Canada73.6%
11 Israel72.7%
12 Switzerland72.6%
13 Latvia70.8%
14 New Zealand66.1%
14 United States66.1%
16 United Kingdom62.9%
17 Netherlands61.6%
18 Sweden 61.0%
19 Ireland59.8%
20 Denmark56.1%
21 Norway54.9%
22 Finland53.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -3.173514 X +9.108
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.728
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.530

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -166422.603420 X +168252.154
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.664
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.441

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -8.933572 X +86.922
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.292186 X +1.838
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -9.769347 X +16.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.341
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116