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Question: Generally speaking, do you think your country is better than most other countries?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 83.9%
2 Australia83.0%
3 United States81.2%
4 Canada76.5%
5 United Kingdom55.6%
6 Sweden47.6%
7 Germany36.9%
8 Italy36.8%

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 = -0.320476 X +7.080
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 21850.152725 X +38512.561
Correlation coefficient (r)0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.356794 X +81.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.085055 X +1.440
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 9.008915 X +6.515
Correlation coefficient (r)0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305