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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who is reserved?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic95.2%
2 Mexico73.7%
3 Russian Federation71.3%
4 Philippines70.4%
5 Israel68.2%
6 Czech Republic64.6%
7 Ireland56.6%
8 United States55.3%
9 Latvia51.3%
10 Germany50.4%
11 France49.5%
12 Belgium49.0%
13 New Zealand45.4%
14 Japan44.8%
15 Republic of Korea42.0%
16 Taiwan36.2%
17 Switzerland33.6%
18 Denmark 20.4%
19 Netherlands15.6%

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

No data for 219 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -2.041913 X +7.725
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.594
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.353

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -80258.870241 X +85392.257
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -13.978421 X +86.768
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.644
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.415

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.361693 X +1.009
Correlation coefficient (r)0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -11.310576 X +19.188
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100