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Question: Which of these two statements comes closer to your own view?
Choices: "It is essential that my country remains one" "Parts of my country should be allowed to become fully separate if they choose to"
Data: % of "It is essential that my country remains one"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand96.9%
2 Slovenia96.2%
3 Australia94.6%
3 Norway94.6%
5 United States94.4%
6 Netherlands94.2%
7 Philippines 93.4%
8 Slovakia91.6%
9 Austria91.5%
10 Japan90.9%
11 Sweden90.3%
12 Czech Republic87.0%
13 Germany86.8%
14 Poland85.2%
15 Italy84.3%
16 Spain84.0%
17 Latvia81.9%
18 Russian Federation75.9%
19 Canada75.8%
20 United Kingdom70.1%

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 218 countries.
Source
ISSP 1995

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.422769 X +4.581
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 82915.982538 X -31561.181
Correlation coefficient (r)0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 10.315568 X +70.614
Correlation coefficient (r)0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.983953 X +0.688
Correlation coefficient (r)0.288
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.083
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.648480 X +16.060
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.054
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003