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Question: Do you think that immigrants improve your country's society by bringing in new ideas and cultures?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia87.3%
2 Canada78.9%
3 Sweden69.8%
4 Germany65.4%
5 United States62.1%
6 United Kingdom54.8%
7 Japan 51.7%
8 Italy43.9%

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 = 2.061081 X +5.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.695
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.483

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 56358.419367 X +16006.635
Correlation coefficient (r)0.694
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.482

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.412251 X +81.398
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.535597 X +1.150
Correlation coefficient (r)0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 8.334120 X +6.809
Correlation coefficient (r)0.354
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125