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Question: How often are you asked to help influence important decisions in other people's favour?
Choices: "Never" "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Data: % of "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland84.3%
2 Latvia84.1%
3 Ireland84.0%
4 Switzerland81.2%
5 Germany80.6%
6 Japan80.5%
7 Hungary80.1%
8 Portugal79.6%
9 Czech Republic77.8%
10 Chile77.3%
11 Spain76.9%
12 Norway75.7%
13 Canada75.3%
14 United Kingdom73.4%
15 Sweden72.4%
16 Republic of Korea72.3%
17 Australia72.1%
18 Denmark71.1%
19 Poland70.2%
20 New Zealand69.0%
21 Israel67.6%
22 France 66.6%
22 Netherlands66.6%
24 United States65.4%
25 Slovenia48.2%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.036125 X +7.548
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 19584.335659 X +35760.254
Correlation coefficient (r)0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.030181 X +83.365
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.114047 X +2.344
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.847123 X +13.339
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007