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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:
13 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia77.3%
2 Hungary77.0%
3 Austria66.4%
4 Germany61.4%
5 Czech Republic59.6%
6 Israel53.6%
7 New Zealand53.3%
8 Finland52.2%
9 Denmark47.4%
10 Canada44.5%
11 Australia42.8%
12 Spain32.5%
13 Japan 20.8%

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 25 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data13
Regression equation
Y = -0.265055 X +6.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data13
Regression equation
Y = -24189.291736 X +58480.526
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.253
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data13
Regression equation
Y = -14.550583 X +88.556
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.838
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.702

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data13
Regression equation
Y = 0.466283 X +1.313
Correlation coefficient (r)0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data13
Regression equation
Y = 6.201497 X +6.837
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106