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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - Free trade leads to better products becoming available in the country.
Choices: "Agree strongly" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Disagree strongly"
Data: % of "Agree strongly" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan85.2%
2 Slovenia82.2%
3 Ireland79.4%
4 Chile79.0%
5 Venezuela78.8%
6 Poland78.0%
7 Israel77.7%
8 Japan75.4%
9 Russian Federation74.2%
10 Netherlands70.8%
11 Spain69.8%
12 Czech Republic69.5%
13 Portugal69.4%
14 Bulgaria68.2%
15 Denmark67.9%
16 Hungary65.8%
17 New Zealand64.6%
18 Switzerland63.8%
19 Uruguay63.5%
20 Sweden62.2%
21 United Kingdom61.4%
22 Republic of Korea60.8%
23 Philippines58.6%
24 United States56.5%
25 Norway56.3%
26 France52.1%
26 Germany52.1%
28 Australia51.2%
29 Latvia50.6%
30 Austria49.9%
31 Slovakia48.3%
32 Canada46.0%
33 Finland 37.9%

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 205 countries.
Source
ISSP 2003

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.140853 X +8.027
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -46433.547263 X +71174.333
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -4.257937 X +82.389
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.677898 X +1.187
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -8.270202 X +18.346
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.166
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028