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Question: In general, do you think that pollution of the country's rivers, lakes and streams 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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile89.6%
2 Portugal87.0%
3 Spain85.6%
4 Mexico82.3%
5 Czech Republic78.1%
6 Canada75.2%
7 Germany74.1%
8 Slovenia71.7%
9 Israel71.5%
10 United States70.7%
11 Japan 69.6%
12 New Zealand68.6%
13 Ireland65.0%
14 United Kingdom63.7%
15 Austria62.3%
16 Latvia57.9%
17 Switzerland57.3%
18 Sweden56.5%
19 Finland50.4%
20 Denmark44.1%
21 Norway39.4%
22 Netherlands38.4%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.620632 X +8.667
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -104996.004190 X +119195.759
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.629
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.396

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -4.403347 X +83.838
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.267
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.227675 X +1.459
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -8.015792 X +17.511
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088