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Question: Do you think that immigrants improve your country's society by bringing in new ideas and cultures?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland76.8%
2 Australia74.7%
3 Canada67.2%
4 Venezuela65.3%
5 New Zealand60.5%
6 Denmark60.0%
7 Spain59.9%
8 Sweden58.5%
9 United States57.2%
10 Ireland57.1%
10 Netherlands57.1%
12 Taiwan56.4%
13 Germany54.4%
14 Uruguay54.0%
15 Portugal53.2%
16 Finland47.4%
17 Bulgaria47.0%
18 Austria46.6%
19 Israel46.3%
20 Slovenia44.4%
21 Philippines43.7%
22 Norway42.4%
23 France41.3%
24 Chile39.0%
25 United Kingdom33.6%
26 Latvia31.9%
27 Republic of Korea28.6%
28 Poland28.0%
29 Russian Federation27.7%
30 Hungary24.5%
31 Slovakia20.7%
32 Japan 19.5%
33 Czech Republic17.1%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.357502 X +5.992
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 76837.432730 X +5997.236
Correlation coefficient (r)0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 9.134401 X +74.912
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.302410 X +1.500
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -7.518420 X +13.912
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070