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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:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 60.3%
2 Italy56.1%
3 Poland48.9%
4 Slovenia47.7%
5 Germany45.5%
6 Spain42.3%
7 Hungary41.5%
8 Czech Republic35.5%
9 Ireland32.4%
10 Netherlands30.1%
11 United Kingdom25.7%
12 Israel25.1%
13 United States21.1%
14 Australia19.7%
15 Canada19.5%
16 Norway18.1%
17 New Zealand17.6%

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 = -2.588094 X +7.733
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.795
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.632

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -94596.208936 X +81278.608
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.543160 X +81.456
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.919291 X +1.902
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 4.229251 X +10.286
Correlation coefficient (r)0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025