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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - This country should follow its own interests, even if this leads to conflicts with other nations.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile75.9%
2 Israel68.6%
3 Portugal67.1%
4 Austria61.0%
5 France60.0%
6 Denmark57.9%
7 Ireland57.1%
8 Republic of Korea56.2%
9 Switzerland56.1%
10 New Zealand55.7%
11 Canada53.4%
12 Poland52.8%
13 Finland51.6%
14 Hungary50.1%
14 United Kingdom50.1%
16 Spain49.2%
17 United States47.0%
18 Australia46.0%
18 Czech Republic46.0%
20 Germany43.7%
21 Slovakia40.5%
22 Netherlands38.7%
23 Latvia36.8%
24 Sweden36.2%
25 Norway29.3%
26 Slovenia27.9%
27 Japan 23.9%

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 = -0.019215 X +6.775
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -13619.302818 X +54661.305
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.987646 X +80.129
Correlation coefficient (r)0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.556811 X +1.315
Correlation coefficient (r)0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -9.398095 X +15.102
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.345
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.119