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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 stop and search people in the street at random?
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 Hungary81.7%
2 Denmark80.4%
3 United States77.7%
4 Netherlands75.2%
5 Dominican Republic74.1%
6 Syrian Arab Republic69.6%
7 Republic of Korea65.3%
8 South Africa59.6%
9 Switzerland58.6%
10 Norway57.7%
11 New Zealand56.5%
12 Czech Republic56.3%
13 Australia55.4%
14 Germany52.7%
15 Ireland51.6%
16 Israel51.4%
17 Portugal50.8%
18 Chile47.2%
19 Japan 46.8%
20 Tajikistan46.5%
21 Finland45.6%
22 Poland44.4%
23 Slovenia44.3%
24 Viet Nam41.7%
25 Uruguay39.5%
26 Canada39.1%
27 Uzbekistan37.9%
28 Croatia32.0%
29 Spain30.9%
30 Philippines27.4%
31 Russian Federation26.8%
32 France19.3%
33 Latvia18.3%

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 = 0.887407 X +6.076
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 60695.353100 X +7317.097
Correlation coefficient (r)0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.398857 X +76.182
Correlation coefficient (r)0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.037193 X +1.826
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.998861 X +11.567
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004