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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to respect the country's political institutions and laws"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden98.1%
2 Norway96.7%
3 Australia94.5%
4 Latvia94.4%
5 Canada93.4%
6 United States93.1%
7 Austria91.6%
8 Germany91.0%
9 New Zealand90.8%
10 Ireland88.8%
11 Philippines88.7%
12 Spain88.4%
13 United Kingdom87.8%
14 Italy87.6%
15 Slovakia87.5%
16 Bulgaria86.9%
17 Slovenia86.7%
18 Poland85.7%
19 Russian Federation85.4%
20 Czech Republic85.0%
21 Netherlands83.2%
22 Japan 70.8%
23 Hungary63.6%

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

No data for 215 countries.
Source
ISSP 1995

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 3.271251 X +3.715
Correlation coefficient (r)0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 149626.886558 X -88830.923
Correlation coefficient (r)0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 11.213684 X +69.031
Correlation coefficient (r)0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.474114 X +1.182
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.430526 X +11.464
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001