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Question: Which of these two statements comes closer to your own view?
Choices: "It is essential that my country remains one" "Parts of my country should be allowed to become fully separate if they choose to"
Data: % of "It is essential that my country remains one"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia97.9%
2 New Zealand97.1%
3 Canada96.8%
4 Chile95.7%
5 Portugal94.5%
6 Finland90.7%
7 Japan90.6%
8 Denmark 89.1%
9 France88.9%
10 Czech Republic87.9%
11 Slovakia86.2%
12 Poland85.1%
13 Spain84.2%
14 Switzerland83.8%
15 Israel83.3%
16 Latvia75.6%
17 Republic of Korea75.1%

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

No data for 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 2.033309 X +4.909
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 41322.011474 X +6555.752
Correlation coefficient (r)0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 12.085016 X +70.325
Correlation coefficient (r)0.315
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.748981 X +0.847
Correlation coefficient (r)0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -23.625567 X +31.214
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175