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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada96.5%
2 France96.3%
2 Sweden96.3%
4 United States96.1%
5 Australia90.9%
6 Germany88.2%
7 United Kingdom86.5%
8 Republic of Korea77.6%
9 Japan 67.2%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.992733 X +3.269
Correlation coefficient (r)0.818
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.669

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 76614.436236 X -16409.384
Correlation coefficient (r)0.689
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.475

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.966816 X +92.423
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.785031 X -0.091
Correlation coefficient (r)0.644
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.415

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -21.165072 X +33.488
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141