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Question: How willing would you be to accept cuts in your standard of living 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 Italy52.2%
2 Norway50.7%
3 Netherlands48.2%
4 Germany47.2%
5 Spain44.9%
6 Japan 44.2%
7 Canada44.1%
8 Australia41.6%
9 New Zealand35.9%
10 United States34.1%
11 Israel33.8%
12 Slovenia31.6%
13 United Kingdom29.8%
14 Ireland29.4%
15 Poland25.4%
16 Czech Republic19.5%
17 Hungary12.3%

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 = 1.274193 X +6.371
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 73781.299084 X +21488.392
Correlation coefficient (r)0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 16.456127 X +74.874
Correlation coefficient (r)0.735
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.540

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.850486 X +1.897
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -9.084529 X +15.086
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075