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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:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 66.1%
2 Czech Republic63.6%
3 Canada61.9%
4 Germany60.3%
5 Italy58.3%
6 Spain56.5%
7 United States51.3%
8 Australia51.0%
9 United Kingdom49.2%
10 Ireland45.4%
11 New Zealand43.9%
12 Hungary42.5%
13 Poland41.8%
14 Israel39.8%
15 Norway37.3%
16 Slovenia35.2%
17 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 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.327459 X +7.486
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -39699.954364 X +67959.754
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 2.792311 X +79.563
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.954410 X +2.050
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -2.994585 X +13.207
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008