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Question: Do you think that immigrants improve your country's society by bringing in new ideas and cultures?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland 76.8%
2 Australia74.7%
3 Canada67.2%
4 New Zealand60.5%
5 Denmark60.0%
6 Spain59.9%
7 Sweden58.5%
8 United States57.2%
9 Ireland57.1%
9 Netherlands57.1%
11 Germany54.4%
12 Portugal53.2%
13 Finland47.4%
14 Austria46.6%
15 Israel46.3%
16 Slovenia44.4%
17 Norway42.4%
18 France41.3%
19 Chile39.0%
20 United Kingdom33.6%
21 Latvia31.9%
22 Republic of Korea28.6%
23 Poland28.0%
24 Hungary24.5%
25 Slovakia20.7%
26 Japan19.5%
27 Czech Republic17.1%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.587492 X +6.032
Correlation coefficient (r)0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 93003.070339 X +6577.766
Correlation coefficient (r)0.647
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.419

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 7.279062 X +77.606
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.197304 X +1.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.377841 X +12.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046