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Question: Do you see yourself as someone who has an active imagination?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States76.2%
2 Germany72.0%
3 France63.0%
4 Japan 39.8%
5 Republic of Korea39.7%

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

No data for 5 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.938426 X +4.826
Correlation coefficient (r)0.990
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.980

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 66412.927491 X +9191.524
Correlation coefficient (r)0.865
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.748

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -14.172205 X +89.920
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.881
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.776

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.613170 X +0.498
Correlation coefficient (r)0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -22.956614 X +30.567
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377