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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who has an active imagination?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States76.2%
2 Germany72.0%
3 France 63.0%
4 Japan39.8%

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

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 1.913348 X +5.328
Correlation coefficient (r)0.982
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.964

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 103542.188268 X -11431.223
Correlation coefficient (r)0.829
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.687

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -15.095874 X +90.548
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.878
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.771

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 0.945123 X +0.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.657
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.432

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -0.862108 X +11.708
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003