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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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia87.3%
2 Canada78.9%
3 New Zealand78.4%
4 Ireland75.6%
5 Sweden69.8%
6 Germany65.4%
7 United States62.1%
8 Netherlands60.7%
9 Spain59.8%
10 Poland55.7%
11 United Kingdom54.8%
12 Norway52.1%
13 Japan 51.7%
14 Philippines49.7%
15 Austria47.9%
16 Italy43.9%
17 Bulgaria37.6%
18 Latvia33.0%
19 Russian Federation32.3%
20 Slovenia32.2%
21 Czech Republic23.2%
22 Slovakia21.9%
23 Hungary19.9%

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 = 1.510527 X +5.803
Correlation coefficient (r)0.578
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.334

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 84309.515773 X -1202.970
Correlation coefficient (r)0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 14.601758 X +71.299
Correlation coefficient (r)0.588
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.346

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -0.051524 X +1.625
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -3.500886 X +12.025
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028