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Question: Do you agree that immigrants increase crime rates?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 65.2%
2 Italy64.2%
3 Germany58.9%
4 Sweden58.8%
5 United States33.4%
6 Australia31.4%
7 United Kingdom26.0%
8 Canada20.3%

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 = -1.043157 X +7.346
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -30446.585133 X +65842.333
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.489
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.239

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.668878 X +79.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.408
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.285336 X +1.622
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.354
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.432442 X +11.521
Correlation coefficient (r)0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006