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Question: How important is it to have the following things in our country? - the media can report the news without state/ government censorship
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not too important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Somewhat important"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden97.0%
2 United States96.6%
3 Australia94.7%
4 Canada94.5%
5 United Kingdom93.5%
6 France92.3%
6 Germany 92.3%
8 Italy92.0%
9 Republic of Korea90.8%
10 Japan86.6%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 11.624128 X -4.159
Correlation coefficient (r)0.850
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.722

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 383011.677890 X -307385.164
Correlation coefficient (r)0.803
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.645

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -39.161725 X +118.432
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 5.221929 X -3.379
Correlation coefficient (r)0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -6.455109 X +17.105
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002