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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - We worry too much about the future of the environment and not enough about prices and jobs today
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland54.9%
2 Slovenia53.9%
3 Poland49.5%
4 Hungary46.7%
5 Italy45.6%
6 United States41.5%
7 Czech Republic39.8%
8 Spain39.3%
9 United Kingdom39.2%
10 Germany38.7%
11 Israel30.7%
12 New Zealand29.9%
13 Netherlands28.5%
14 Japan 26.6%
15 Norway26.5%
16 Australia25.8%
17 Canada24.7%

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 = -2.017833 X +7.601
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.447
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.200

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -53095.000690 X +68654.454
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -13.573369 X +86.048
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.540
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.292

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.448300 X +1.754
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 6.092060 X +9.447
Correlation coefficient (r)0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027