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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia74.7%
2 Canada67.2%
3 Sweden58.5%
4 United States57.2%
5 Germany54.4%
6 France 41.3%
7 United Kingdom33.6%
8 Republic of Korea28.6%
9 Japan19.5%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.853692 X +5.795
Correlation coefficient (r)0.818
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.669

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 61936.583927 X +20644.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.807
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.651

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.944007 X +83.334
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.861828 X +1.088
Correlation coefficient (r)0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.201566 X +14.366
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054