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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "People like me don't have any say about what the government does"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia81.7%
2 Croatia80.4%
3 Russian Federation77.9%
4 Poland75.6%
5 Slovenia72.7%
6 Hungary72.4%
7 Germany71.7%
8 South Africa69.7%
9 Czech Republic69.4%
10 Chile67.9%
11 Spain62.8%
12 Finland60.8%
13 Ireland60.2%
14 Uzbekistan59.4%
15 Portugal57.3%
16 Israel57.1%
17 United States57.0%
18 Tajikistan56.7%
19 Netherlands55.3%
20 Australia53.3%
21 Canada51.8%
22 Switzerland51.5%
23 New Zealand51.4%
24 Denmark49.0%
25 Uruguay46.5%
26 Norway45.0%
27 Syrian Arab Republic42.6%
28 Dominican Republic42.1%
29 Republic of Korea38.7%
30 Philippines33.4%
31 Viet Nam24.9%
32 France21.6%
33 Japan 15.6%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.172933 X +6.614
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -14378.658603 X +46712.876
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -6.281266 X +81.935
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.419994 X +1.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 7.986560 X +6.123
Correlation coefficient (r)0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067