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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:
15 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico80.3%
2 Ireland78.6%
3 United States76.2%
4 Israel75.4%
5 New Zealand73.1%
6 Germany72.0%
7 Denmark70.2%
8 Switzerland69.4%
9 Netherlands68.6%
10 France 63.0%
11 Latvia54.0%
12 Czech Republic44.7%
13 Belgium41.1%
14 Japan39.8%
15 Republic of Korea39.7%

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 23 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 1.682878 X +5.736
Correlation coefficient (r)0.566
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.320

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 78237.242563 X +4244.630
Correlation coefficient (r)0.444
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.197

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -2.964607 X +82.683
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 1.530975 X +0.638
Correlation coefficient (r)0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -18.322959 X +22.335
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.651
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.424