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Question: Overall, when you consider all the advantages and disadvantages of social media, would you say social media has been more of a good thing or more of a bad thing for democracy in (survey country)?
Choices: "Good thing" "Bad thing"
Data: % of "Good thing"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan71.4%
4 Italy59.6%
5 Germany 56.0%
6 United Kingdom51.2%
7 Canada49.8%
8 France47.1%
10 United States33.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2022. For the United States, Pew Research Center "American Trends Panel Wave 105" March 2022.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.844298 X +7.555
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.742
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.551

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -118044.672967 X +112876.231
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.895
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.801

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 15.639880 X +73.281
Correlation coefficient (r)0.871
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.759

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.329961 X +2.174
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.736
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.542

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -10.277300 X +14.870
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127