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Question: Do you agree that immigrants are generally good for your country's economy?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia70.5%
2 Canada62.7%
3 New Zealand59.0%
4 Portugal57.4%
5 Republic of Korea53.9%
6 Switzerland53.4%
7 Spain49.2%
8 Israel48.9%
9 United States45.4%
10 Sweden44.2%
11 Ireland39.6%
12 Austria38.2%
13 Japan36.1%
14 France35.1%
15 Chile 33.7%
16 Slovenia31.1%
17 Denmark30.7%
18 Norway30.5%
19 Netherlands26.7%
20 Germany26.3%
21 Poland21.7%
22 United Kingdom21.6%
23 Finland20.8%
24 Latvia19.7%
25 Czech Republic15.2%
26 Hungary12.5%
27 Slovakia8.8%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.322809 X +6.647
Correlation coefficient (r)0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 50642.408767 X +29284.871
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 12.448022 X +76.041
Correlation coefficient (r)0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.079572 X +1.620
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.510625 X +10.254
Correlation coefficient (r)0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001