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Question: Do you agree that immigrants are generally good for your country's economy?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia70.5%
2 Canada62.7%
3 New Zealand59.0%
4 Portugal57.4%
5 Venezuela57.0%
6 Republic of Korea53.9%
7 Switzerland53.4%
8 Spain49.2%
9 Israel48.9%
10 United States45.4%
11 Sweden44.2%
12 Philippines41.3%
13 Uruguay39.7%
14 Ireland39.6%
15 Austria38.2%
16 Japan36.1%
17 Taiwan35.7%
18 France35.1%
19 Chile33.7%
20 Slovenia31.1%
21 Denmark30.7%
22 Norway30.5%
23 Netherlands26.7%
24 Germany26.3%
25 Poland21.7%
26 United Kingdom21.6%
27 Finland 20.8%
27 Russian Federation20.8%
29 Latvia19.7%
30 Czech Republic15.2%
31 Bulgaria14.7%
32 Hungary12.5%
33 Slovakia8.8%

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 = 0.507612 X +6.462
Correlation coefficient (r)0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 42980.242844 X +25587.864
Correlation coefficient (r)0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 8.855909 X +76.444
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.200749 X +1.547
Correlation coefficient (r)0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -5.088435 X +14.923
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021