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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - This country should follow its own interests, even if this leads to conflicts with other nations.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France60.0%
2 Republic of Korea56.2%
3 Canada53.4%
4 United Kingdom50.1%
5 United States47.0%
6 Australia46.0%
7 Germany43.7%
8 Sweden36.2%
9 Japan 23.9%

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 = 0.268692 X +6.674
Correlation coefficient (r)0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7462.239887 X +54771.137
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.491687 X +84.386
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.055495 X +1.512
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7.622849 X +11.250
Correlation coefficient (r)0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021