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Question: Should religious extremists be allowed to hold public meetings?
Choices: "Should definitely be allowed" "Should probably be allowed" "Should probably not be allowed" "Should definitely not be allowed"
Data: % of "Should definitely be allowed" "Should probably be allowed"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States73.4%
2 Israel66.1%
3 New Zealand57.4%
4 Finland51.6%
5 Ireland41.1%
6 Canada39.9%
7 Mexico38.5%
8 United Kingdom36.0%
9 Sweden35.1%
10 Slovenia34.8%
11 Norway33.9%
12 Denmark32.8%
13 Australia28.3%
14 Poland26.1%
15 Spain24.2%
16 Czech Republic20.3%
16 France20.3%
18 Republic of Korea20.0%
19 Chile19.7%
20 Switzerland19.6%
21 Hungary18.8%
22 Netherlands17.6%
22 Slovakia17.6%
24 Portugal14.2%
25 Latvia12.4%
26 Austria9.1%
27 Germany7.6%
28 Belgium7.2%
29 Japan 4.9%

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

No data for 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 1.306579 X +6.394
Correlation coefficient (r)0.479
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.229

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 43889.170347 X +35926.353
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.478385 X +80.646
Correlation coefficient (r)0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.933422 X +1.260
Correlation coefficient (r)0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -1.886983 X +10.923
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009