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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:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic87.0%
2 Mexico80.3%
3 Ireland78.6%
4 United States76.2%
5 Israel75.4%
6 New Zealand73.1%
7 Germany72.0%
8 Denmark70.2%
9 Philippines69.9%
10 Switzerland69.4%
11 Netherlands 68.6%
12 Russian Federation68.3%
13 France63.0%
14 Latvia54.0%
15 Taiwan52.4%
16 Czech Republic44.7%
17 Belgium41.1%
18 Japan39.8%
19 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 219 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.793112 X +6.146
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 22915.954152 X +28666.235
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -8.866079 X +85.103
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.743226 X +0.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.558
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.311

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -28.812425 X +31.921
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.618
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.382