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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany81.6%
2 Japan 74.5%
3 Canada73.6%
4 United States66.1%
5 United Kingdom62.9%
6 Sweden61.0%

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 = -2.173074 X +8.420
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -55899.149105 X +92214.288
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 6.422266 X +76.808
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.998012 X +2.220
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.616
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.379

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.142346 X +11.518
Correlation coefficient (r)0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003