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Question: Do you agree that immigrants are generally good for your country's economy?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia70.5%
2 Canada62.7%
3 Republic of Korea53.9%
4 United States45.4%
5 Sweden44.2%
6 Japan 36.1%
7 France35.1%
8 Germany26.3%
9 United Kingdom21.6%

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 = 0.250111 X +6.688
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 21564.957840 X +41833.989
Correlation coefficient (r)0.310
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.096

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.622995 X +80.691
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.455591 X +1.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 10.676463 X +10.083
Correlation coefficient (r)0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092