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Question: How important is it to have the following things in our country? - the media can report the news without state/ government censorship
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not too important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Somewhat important"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States96.6%
4 Canada 94.5%
5 United Kingdom93.5%
6 France92.3%
6 Germany92.3%
8 Italy92.0%
10 Japan86.6%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 8.017237 X -0.836
Correlation coefficient (r)0.849
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.721

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 416778.828784 X -334964.893
Correlation coefficient (r)0.831
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.691

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -56.280108 X +133.598
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.824
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.679

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.390957 X -1.664
Correlation coefficient (r)0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 10.973505 X -0.695
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010