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Question: Do you agree that there is little that people can do to change the course of their lives?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States82.9%
3 France70.6%
4 United Kingdom69.9%
6 Germany69.0%
8 Japan64.3%
9 Italy36.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.982047 X +5.888
Correlation coefficient (r)0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 73259.090613 X +2304.882
Correlation coefficient (r)0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -9.140633 X +87.534
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.622
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.387

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.022422 X +0.829
Correlation coefficient (r)0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 18.005502 X -2.474
Correlation coefficient (r)0.767
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.588