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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:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands48.5%
2 Israel44.8%
3 Japan 44.2%
4 Spain43.7%
5 United States40.2%
6 United Kingdom38.6%
7 Italy38.4%
8 Australia38.0%
9 Canada37.3%
10 New Zealand34.0%
11 Poland33.6%
12 Slovenia33.4%
13 Norway31.1%
14 Germany26.4%
15 Ireland23.9%
16 Czech Republic16.9%
17 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 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.798144 X +6.562
Correlation coefficient (r)0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 22326.425289 X +40867.513
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 13.988229 X +76.073
Correlation coefficient (r)0.515
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.265

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.321758 X +1.473
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -11.622216 X +15.777
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084