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Question: Do you agree that immigrants increase crime rates?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway78.9%
2 Czech Republic73.4%
3 Denmark72.6%
4 Japan71.8%
5 Austria68.8%
6 Hungary67.6%
7 Germany64.3%
8 Portugal59.5%
9 Spain57.7%
9 Switzerland57.7%
11 Sweden57.2%
12 Slovenia53.8%
13 Poland52.4%
14 Israel50.3%
15 Finland48.5%
16 Netherlands47.8%
17 Slovakia45.0%
18 France43.6%
19 United Kingdom39.8%
20 Ireland38.3%
21 Chile37.5%
22 Latvia 35.2%
23 Australia34.8%
24 Republic of Korea33.0%
25 New Zealand30.3%
26 Canada27.3%
27 United States26.9%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.333258 X +6.671
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 4098.096144 X +45373.561
Correlation coefficient (r)0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.429828 X +80.124
Correlation coefficient (r)0.087
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.035813 X +1.541
Correlation coefficient (r)0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -3.533534 X +15.054
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014