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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:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria71.3%
2 Hungary62.9%
3 Slovenia59.9%
4 Poland59.3%
5 Latvia56.6%
6 Slovakia54.8%
7 Russian Federation53.6%
8 United Kingdom50.1%
9 United States48.1%
10 Spain45.0%
11 Czech Republic42.3%
12 New Zealand40.0%
13 Ireland38.0%
14 Austria37.5%
15 Italy36.8%
16 Australia36.2%
16 Philippines 36.2%
18 Germany35.0%
19 Netherlands27.9%
20 Canada24.5%
21 Norway20.3%
22 Sweden16.1%
23 Japan14.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 215 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.337258 X +7.624
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.587
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.345

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -94346.031244 X +81301.992
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.580
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.336

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -16.652539 X +86.359
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.656
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.430

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.022416 X +1.548
Correlation coefficient (r)0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 6.579293 X +9.968
Correlation coefficient (r)0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042