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Question: Do you agree that immigrants take jobs away from people who were born in the country?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile66.3%
2 Poland59.3%
3 Czech Republic58.8%
4 Hungary56.1%
5 Portugal55.4%
6 Israel52.0%
7 Latvia48.6%
8 Slovenia48.0%
9 Germany45.4%
10 United Kingdom44.8%
11 Ireland44.6%
12 United States43.0%
13 Spain40.5%
14 Austria40.0%
15 Slovakia39.6%
16 New Zealand35.3%
17 Finland27.6%
17 Japan 27.6%
19 Canada27.0%
20 France25.7%
21 Australia25.4%
22 Netherlands24.7%
23 Republic of Korea23.6%
24 Switzerland17.3%
25 Denmark15.9%
26 Norway14.9%
27 Sweden7.8%

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 = -1.599617 X +7.367
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -93405.404205 X +83028.580
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -12.584173 X +85.350
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.617
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.381

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.377244 X +1.449
Correlation coefficient (r)0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -5.187790 X +12.392
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.238
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057