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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile91.5%
2 Philippines88.5%
2 Russian Federation88.5%
4 Portugal86.4%
5 Spain83.4%
6 Mexico82.7%
7 Germany81.6%
8 Austria77.3%
9 Czech Republic76.0%
10 Japan74.5%
11 Slovenia73.8%
12 Canada73.6%
13 Israel72.7%
14 Switzerland72.6%
15 Latvia70.8%
16 New Zealand66.1%
16 United States66.1%
18 Bulgaria63.5%
19 United Kingdom62.9%
20 Netherlands61.6%
21 Sweden61.0%
22 Ireland 59.8%
23 Denmark56.1%
24 Norway54.9%
25 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 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.883674 X +9.562
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.634
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.402

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -156570.859437 X +157414.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -13.145076 X +89.322
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.509776 X +1.272
Correlation coefficient (r)0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.375830 X +14.642
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006