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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines68.9%
2 Japan66.1%
3 Czech Republic63.6%
4 Canada61.9%
5 Germany60.3%
6 Russian Federation58.4%
7 Italy58.3%
8 Spain56.5%
9 Bulgaria 51.4%
10 United States51.3%
11 Australia51.0%
12 United Kingdom49.2%
13 Ireland45.4%
14 New Zealand43.9%
15 Hungary42.5%
16 Poland41.8%
17 Israel39.8%
18 Norway37.3%
19 Slovenia35.2%
20 Netherlands24.5%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.265449 X +7.791
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.417
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.174

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -78341.519256 X +82147.506
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -7.957220 X +83.608
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.150968 X +1.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -5.276531 X +14.493
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014