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Question: In general, do you think that a rise in the world's temperature caused by the 'greenhouse effect' 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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal87.9%
2 Chile86.1%
3 Spain81.6%
4 Germany78.6%
5 Austria76.8%
6 Czech Republic74.0%
7 Japan72.9%
8 Mexico72.8%
9 Switzerland70.8%
10 Slovenia66.8%
11 Israel60.5%
12 New Zealand60.3%
13 Canada59.1%
14 Latvia 54.7%
15 Ireland54.1%
16 United Kingdom53.9%
17 United States48.0%
18 Sweden46.1%
19 Denmark45.0%
20 Netherlands44.5%
21 Norway40.9%
22 Finland40.6%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.401469 X +8.431
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.658
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.433

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -90473.293630 X +106151.251
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -1.326804 X +81.748
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.183592 X +1.725
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.030189 X +15.342
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036