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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:
20 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 Spain88.4%
12 United Kingdom87.8%
13 Italy87.6%
14 Slovakia87.5%
15 Slovenia86.7%
16 Poland85.7%
17 Czech Republic85.0%
18 Netherlands83.2%
19 Japan 70.8%
20 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 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.428885 X +3.786
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 123744.507700 X -62315.883
Correlation coefficient (r)0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 7.010954 X +74.280
Correlation coefficient (r)0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.256164 X +1.288
Correlation coefficient (r)0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -5.400326 X +17.544
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015