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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary62.9%
2 Slovenia59.9%
3 Poland59.3%
4 Latvia56.6%
5 Slovakia54.8%
6 United Kingdom50.1%
7 United States48.1%
8 Spain45.0%
9 Czech Republic42.3%
10 New Zealand40.0%
11 Ireland38.0%
12 Austria 37.5%
13 Italy36.8%
14 Australia36.2%
15 Germany35.0%
16 Netherlands27.9%
17 Canada24.5%
18 Norway20.3%
19 Sweden16.1%
20 Japan14.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.672925 X +7.475
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -90858.641450 X +83119.425
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -14.854915 X +86.432
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.786
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.618

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.137227 X +1.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 5.529409 X +10.566
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050