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Question: How important is it to have the following things in our country? - the media can report the news without state/ government censorship
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not too important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Somewhat important"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Greece98.1%
2 Spain97.9%
3 Hungary97.6%
4 Sweden 97.0%
5 United States96.6%
6 Czech Republic95.0%
7 Australia94.7%
8 Canada94.5%
9 Poland94.2%
10 Lithuania93.5%
10 United Kingdom93.5%
12 Slovakia93.3%
13 Netherlands93.0%
14 Turkiye92.7%
15 France92.3%
15 Germany92.3%
17 Italy92.0%
18 Republic of Korea90.8%
19 Mexico89.7%
20 Japan86.6%
21 Israel77.7%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.038797 X +8.447
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -27112.999802 X +62535.328
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -14.793646 X +93.287
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -5.217983 X +6.445
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.566
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.320

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 10.525287 X -0.171
Correlation coefficient (r)0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009