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Question: Should people who want to overthrow the government by revolution be allowed to publish books expressing their views?
Choices: "Definitely" "Probably" "Probably not" "Definitely not"
Data: % of "Definitely" "Probably"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy82.3%
2 Norway76.6%
3 Switzerland75.3%
4 France74.6%
5 Australia74.0%
5 Japan74.0%
7 New Zealand73.7%
8 Slovenia70.0%
9 Philippines69.8%
10 Uruguay69.4%
11 Canada69.3%
12 Israel67.8%
13 United States63.7%
14 Germany62.9%
15 Czech Republic60.5%
16 Bulgaria58.7%
17 Ireland 55.8%
18 Spain54.2%
19 Poland50.0%
20 Russian Federation45.6%
21 Latvia45.0%
22 Hungary42.4%
23 Cyprus23.7%

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 215 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 2.067665 X +5.302
Correlation coefficient (r)0.481
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.231

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 71044.936697 X -2933.599
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 12.326231 X +71.834
Correlation coefficient (r)0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.544189 X +1.289
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.502200 X +13.557
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001