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Question: Do you agree that immigrants take jobs away from people who were born in the country?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan81.5%
2 Chile66.3%
3 Russian Federation64.4%
4 Bulgaria63.5%
5 Poland59.3%
6 Czech Republic58.8%
7 Hungary56.1%
8 Portugal55.4%
9 Israel52.0%
10 Latvia48.6%
11 Slovenia48.0%
12 Philippines46.1%
13 Germany45.4%
14 United Kingdom44.8%
15 Venezuela44.7%
16 Ireland44.6%
17 United States43.0%
18 Spain40.5%
19 Austria40.0%
20 Slovakia39.6%
21 Uruguay37.3%
22 New Zealand35.3%
23 Finland 27.6%
23 Japan27.6%
25 Canada27.0%
26 France25.7%
27 Australia25.4%
28 Netherlands24.7%
29 Republic of Korea23.6%
30 Switzerland17.3%
31 Denmark15.9%
32 Norway14.9%
33 Sweden7.8%

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 = -2.243306 X +7.566
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -88342.426999 X +77456.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.598
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.358

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -14.643329 X +85.489
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.455677 X +1.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -4.299300 X +14.777
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014