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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:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia97.9%
2 New Zealand97.1%
3 Canada96.8%
4 Chile95.7%
5 Portugal94.5%
6 Finland 90.7%
7 Japan90.6%
8 Denmark89.1%
9 France88.9%
10 Czech Republic87.9%
11 Slovakia86.2%
12 Poland85.1%
13 Spain84.2%
14 Switzerland83.8%
15 Israel83.3%
16 Latvia75.6%
17 Republic of Korea75.1%

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 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 2.033309 X +4.909
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 46959.818863 X -274.252
Correlation coefficient (r)0.152
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 14.480841 X +67.919
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.504425 X +1.136
Correlation coefficient (r)0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -23.625567 X +31.214
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175