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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. How about "Most elected officials care what people like me think"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
4 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa51.1%
2 Kenya 38.2%
3 Nigeria33.2%
4 Tunisia18.3%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 54 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 2.743100 X +3.833
Correlation coefficient (r)0.802
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.643

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 5388.342824 X +1636.053
Correlation coefficient (r)0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = -36.037866 X +75.560
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 0.364876 X +3.082
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data4
Regression equation
Y = 61.484712 X -10.505
Correlation coefficient (r)0.944
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.891