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Question: In general, do you think that pesticides and chemicals used in farming are 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 Chile87.2%
2 Portugal79.1%
3 Spain70.0%
4 Slovenia69.6%
5 Germany69.1%
6 Austria68.1%
7 Mexico65.8%
8 Czech Republic65.6%
9 Latvia63.8%
10 Switzerland60.6%
11 Denmark59.8%
12 Japan59.0%
13 Canada56.0%
14 Sweden55.9%
15 Ireland52.6%
16 United Kingdom 50.3%
17 Israel50.2%
18 United States49.4%
19 New Zealand46.6%
20 Norway43.2%
21 Netherlands43.1%
22 Finland42.2%

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 = -3.096389 X +8.769
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -123664.985539 X +123043.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.272480 X +84.051
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.380231 X +1.836
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.357162 X +12.408
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000