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Question: In general, do you think that pollution of the country's rivers, lakes and streams 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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia83.1%
2 Germany78.3%
3 Italy76.4%
4 Canada74.6%
5 United States68.2%
6 Japan 67.7%
7 United Kingdom61.9%

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 = 1.797971 X +5.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 28543.220233 X +30288.927
Correlation coefficient (r)0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 8.624309 X +75.271
Correlation coefficient (r)0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.185576 X +1.605
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.105290 X +12.606
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001