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Question: How important is it to have the following things in our country? - people can say what they want 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 Hungary99.4%
2 Greece98.6%
3 Germany98.5%
4 France98.1%
5 Spain98.0%
6 Czech Republic97.1%
7 United States 97.0%
8 Sweden96.5%
9 Australia95.6%
9 Netherlands95.6%
9 United Kingdom95.6%
12 Poland94.5%
13 Italy94.3%
14 Japan94.0%
15 Republic of Korea93.7%
16 Slovakia93.6%
17 Mexico93.5%
18 Lithuania93.4%
19 Canada92.9%
20 Turkiye92.5%
21 Israel80.2%

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 = -2.717929 X +9.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -3372.728016 X +42885.999
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -7.363454 X +87.282
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -6.193967 X +7.408
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 13.385063 X -3.083
Correlation coefficient (r)0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012