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Question: Which of these issues is the most important for your country today?
Choices: "Health care" "Education" "Crime" "The environment" "Immigration" "The economy" "Terrorism" "Poverty" "None of these" (some other choices for Korea)
Data: % of "The economy"
Period:
Area:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan58.1%
2 Czech Republic43.4%
3 Spain43.1%
4 Belgium42.4%
5 Slovenia41.3%
6 Latvia40.4%
7 Finland 38.5%
8 Iceland37.9%
9 United States36.6%
10 Taiwan34.1%
11 Australia34.0%
12 Denmark33.5%
13 Netherlands32.7%
14 New Zealand32.2%
15 Croatia29.4%
16 United Kingdom29.2%
17 Lithuania26.5%
18 Germany26.4%
19 France25.9%
19 Portugal25.9%
21 Canada23.6%
22 Slovakia20.1%
23 Turkiye19.6%
24 Bulgaria19.5%
25 Russian Federation18.2%
26 Austria15.4%
27 Israel14.4%
28 Philippines14.2%
29 Sweden13.5%
30 Switzerland10.0%
31 Norway9.4%
32 Mexico6.8%
33 South Africa6.4%
34 Argentina3.4%
35 Chile3.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2010

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = 1.318818 X +6.278
Correlation coefficient (r)0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = 32187.167592 X +30793.927
Correlation coefficient (r)0.179
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 11.918345 X +76.115
Correlation coefficient (r)0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.251596 X +2.004
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 9.737409 X +10.468
Correlation coefficient (r)0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054