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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who has an active imagination?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic87.0%
2 Mexico80.3%
3 Ireland78.6%
4 United States76.2%
5 Israel75.4%
6 New Zealand73.1%
7 Germany72.0%
8 Denmark70.2%
9 Philippines69.9%
10 Switzerland69.4%
11 Netherlands68.6%
12 Russian Federation68.3%
13 France63.0%
14 Latvia54.0%
15 Taiwan52.4%
16 Czech Republic44.7%
17 Belgium41.1%
18 Japan 39.8%
19 Republic of Korea39.7%

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 219 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.683608 X +6.198
Correlation coefficient (r)0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 34710.377169 X +21356.848
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -12.181528 X +86.543
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.338
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.697743 X +0.658
Correlation coefficient (r)0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -18.962938 X +22.946
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287