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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to respect the country's political institutions and laws"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway96.6%
2 Canada96.5%
3 Denmark96.3%
3 France96.3%
3 Sweden96.3%
6 Switzerland 96.1%
6 United States96.1%
8 Netherlands93.3%
9 Portugal91.7%
10 Spain91.5%
11 Australia90.9%
12 Chile90.8%
13 New Zealand89.2%
14 Israel88.6%
15 Germany88.2%
16 Finland87.9%
17 Austria87.6%
18 United Kingdom86.5%
19 Hungary85.3%
20 Slovenia83.9%
21 Poland82.4%
22 Latvia81.4%
23 Czech Republic80.9%
24 Ireland79.7%
25 Republic of Korea77.6%
26 Slovakia67.5%
27 Japan67.2%

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 = 3.241671 X +3.924
Correlation coefficient (r)0.541
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.293

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 138320.317141 X -73316.802
Correlation coefficient (r)0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 12.026325 X +70.079
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.745321 X +0.938
Correlation coefficient (r)0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -10.690570 X +19.811
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067