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Question: How willing would you be to pay much higher taxes in order to protect the environment?
Choices: "Very willing" "Fairly willing" "Neither willing nor unwilling" "Fairly unwilling" "Very unwilling"
Data: % of "Very willing" "Fairly willing"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands48.5%
2 Russian Federation47.4%
3 Israel44.8%
4 Japan44.2%
5 Spain43.7%
6 United States40.2%
7 Bulgaria39.3%
8 United Kingdom38.6%
9 Italy38.4%
10 Australia38.0%
11 Canada37.3%
12 New Zealand34.0%
13 Poland33.6%
14 Slovenia33.4%
15 Norway31.1%
16 Philippines 27.2%
17 Germany26.4%
18 Ireland23.9%
19 Czech Republic16.9%
20 Hungary16.5%

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 = -0.270349 X +6.745
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4405.104318 X +41141.525
Correlation coefficient (r)0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 7.537197 X +76.949
Correlation coefficient (r)0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.231237 X +1.706
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.054
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.267816 X +10.334
Correlation coefficient (r)0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006