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Question: In general, do you think that nuclear power stations 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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland84.3%
2 Slovenia77.4%
3 Spain74.9%
4 Philippines 74.5%
5 Israel72.3%
6 Norway71.3%
7 Russian Federation69.1%
8 New Zealand68.1%
9 Italy67.6%
10 Germany65.4%
11 Bulgaria64.4%
12 Poland63.3%
13 Japan53.9%
14 Australia52.0%
15 Canada50.1%
16 Hungary50.0%
17 United Kingdom47.5%
18 Netherlands46.7%
19 United States44.3%
20 Czech Republic43.5%

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 = -0.759875 X +7.121
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4621.746164 X +39823.931
Correlation coefficient (r)0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.208591 X +79.729
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.674910 X +1.206
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -7.779841 X +16.661
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036