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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to respect the country's political institutions and laws"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden98.1%
2 Norway96.7%
3 Australia94.5%
4 Latvia94.4%
5 Canada93.4%
6 United States93.1%
7 Austria 91.6%
8 Germany91.0%
9 New Zealand90.8%
10 Ireland88.8%
11 Spain88.4%
12 United Kingdom87.8%
13 Italy87.6%
14 Slovakia87.5%
15 Slovenia86.7%
16 Poland85.7%
17 Czech Republic85.0%
18 Netherlands83.2%
19 Japan70.8%
20 Hungary63.6%

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

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.073085 X +4.008
Correlation coefficient (r)0.625
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.391

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 145195.026406 X -80386.646
Correlation coefficient (r)0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 9.376281 X +71.955
Correlation coefficient (r)0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.384943 X +1.209
Correlation coefficient (r)0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.980618 X +9.345
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001