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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway96.6%
2 Canada96.5%
3 Denmark96.3%
3 France96.3%
3 Sweden96.3%
6 Switzerland96.1%
6 United States96.1%
8 Netherlands93.3%
9 Portugal91.7%
10 Spain91.5%
11 Australia90.9%
12 Chile90.8%
13 New Zealand89.2%
14 Israel88.6%
15 Germany88.2%
16 Finland87.9%
17 Austria87.6%
18 United Kingdom86.5%
19 Hungary85.3%
20 Slovenia83.9%
21 Poland82.4%
22 Latvia81.4%
23 Czech Republic80.9%
24 Ireland79.7%
25 Republic of Korea77.6%
26 Slovakia67.5%
27 Japan 67.2%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.747372 X +3.556
Correlation coefficient (r)0.544
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.296

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 122755.741885 X -60125.004
Correlation coefficient (r)0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 7.077612 X +74.649
Correlation coefficient (r)0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.704101 X +0.942
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -14.717636 X +26.154
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069