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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic growth always harm the environment
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 60.3%
2 Italy56.1%
3 Germany45.5%
4 United Kingdom25.7%
5 United States21.1%
6 Australia19.7%
7 Canada19.5%

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

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.881471 X +7.473
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.840
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.706

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -53970.573485 X +70206.150
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.802
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.643

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 6.348543 X +79.309
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.580480 X +1.676
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.718
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.516

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.464601 X +12.673
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.128
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016