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Question: How willing would you be to pay much higher taxes 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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 44.2%
2 United States40.2%
3 United Kingdom38.6%
4 Italy38.4%
5 Australia38.0%
6 Canada37.3%
7 Germany26.4%

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

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.069061 X +8.336
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.548
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.300

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -21830.073822 X +59297.846
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 9.527639 X +77.976
Correlation coefficient (r)0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.628769 X +1.706
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 11.809833 X +7.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034