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Question: In general, do you think that air pollution caused by cars 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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 73.9%
2 Canada57.0%
3 United Kingdom55.7%
4 Germany51.4%
5 Sweden50.9%
6 United States49.3%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -4.579305 X +9.482
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.923
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.852

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -91676.239239 X +104787.674
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.802
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.643

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 20.016798 X +70.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.761
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.579

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.192399 X +2.194
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.843
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.711

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 3.693085 X +10.935
Correlation coefficient (r)0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012