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Question: Which of these two statements comes closer to your own view?
Choices: "It is essential that my country remains one" "Parts of my country should be allowed to become fully separate if they choose to"
Data: % of "It is essential that my country remains one"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Canada96.8%
3 Japan90.6%
4 France 88.9%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 6.336611 X +0.687
Correlation coefficient (r)0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = 155475.419318 X -98741.195
Correlation coefficient (r)0.649
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.421

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -20.040486 X +100.957
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.606
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.367

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -3.953152 X +5.101
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.571
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.326

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data3
Regression equation
Y = -1.856564 X +12.453
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003