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Question: Some people say that the following things are important for being truly their national. Others say they are not important. How important do you think each of the following is? "to respect the country's political institutions and laws"
Choices: "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Fairly important"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden98.1%
2 Norway96.7%
3 Australia94.5%
4 Latvia94.4%
5 Canada93.4%
6 United States93.1%
7 Austria91.6%
8 Germany91.0%
9 New Zealand90.8%
10 Ireland88.8%
11 Philippines 88.7%
12 Spain88.4%
13 United Kingdom87.8%
14 Italy87.6%
15 Slovakia87.5%
16 Bulgaria86.9%
17 Slovenia86.7%
18 Poland85.7%
19 Russian Federation85.4%
20 Czech Republic85.0%
21 Netherlands83.2%
22 Japan70.8%
23 Hungary63.6%

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 = 3.699939 X +3.392
Correlation coefficient (r)0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 128951.028823 X -71608.388
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 8.548056 X +71.850
Correlation coefficient (r)0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 0.319281 X +1.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -8.189878 X +19.927
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017