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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:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia97.9%
2 New Zealand97.1%
3 Canada96.8%
4 Chile95.7%
5 Portugal94.5%
6 Finland90.7%
7 Japan 90.6%
8 Denmark89.1%
9 France88.9%
10 Czech Republic87.9%
11 Slovakia86.2%
12 Poland85.1%
13 Spain84.2%
14 Switzerland83.8%
15 Israel83.3%
16 Latvia75.6%
17 Republic of Korea75.1%

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 21 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 2.416693 X +4.609
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 46929.054792 X +64.880
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 11.012476 X +71.290
Correlation coefficient (r)0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 0.417807 X +1.187
Correlation coefficient (r)0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -39.130364 X +47.684
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.521
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.271