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Question: Suppose the government suspected that a terrorist act was about to happen. Do you think the authorities should have the right to detain people for as long as they want without putting them on trial?
Choices: "Definitely should have right" "Probably should have right" "Probably should not have right" "Definitely should not have right"
Data: % of "Definitely should have right" "Probably should have right"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States67.7%
2 Czech Republic64.2%
3 New Zealand59.8%
4 Slovenia59.1%
5 Dominican Republic58.5%
6 Ireland57.8%
7 Israel56.3%
8 Australia55.9%
9 Syrian Arab Republic55.3%
10 South Africa54.7%
11 Poland54.5%
12 Uruguay53.5%
13 Croatia52.9%
14 Norway52.6%
15 Canada52.0%
16 Spain49.5%
17 Germany47.3%
18 France45.4%
19 Denmark44.6%
19 Viet Nam44.6%
21 Netherlands44.5%
22 Chile43.7%
23 Hungary43.1%
24 Portugal42.2%
25 Japan 41.9%
26 Republic of Korea40.5%
27 Finland38.9%
28 Switzerland35.0%
29 Uzbekistan34.2%
30 Latvia29.4%
31 Philippines26.1%
32 Russian Federation26.0%
33 Tajikistan18.1%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.918710 X +5.621
Correlation coefficient (r)0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 86331.702837 X -2793.291
Correlation coefficient (r)0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 11.584646 X +72.453
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.897758 X +2.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.025692 X +10.548
Correlation coefficient (r)0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000