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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 respect the country's political institutions and laws"
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 Sweden98.1%
2 Australia94.5%
3 Canada93.4%
4 United States93.1%
5 Germany91.0%
6 United Kingdom87.8%
7 Italy87.6%
8 Japan 70.8%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.797512 X +2.583
Correlation coefficient (r)0.938
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.880

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 95449.178395 X -33252.933
Correlation coefficient (r)0.682
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.465

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -11.845889 X +92.269
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.095825 X +0.513
Correlation coefficient (r)0.606
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.367

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.940926 X +13.005
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001