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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 be able to speak the country's language"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden95.8%
2 United States93.0%
3 Germany89.1%
4 United Kingdom88.4%
5 Australia87.9%
6 Italy85.7%
7 Canada80.9%
8 Japan 70.4%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.463258 X +3.023
Correlation coefficient (r)0.824
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.679

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 94247.478019 X -29219.946
Correlation coefficient (r)0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -16.378991 X +95.814
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.397733 X +0.286
Correlation coefficient (r)0.729
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.531

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.506710 X +12.600
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000