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Question: When you get together with your friends, relatives or fellow workers, how often do you discuss politics?
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Rarely" "Never"
Data: % of "Often" "Sometimes"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway70.8%
2 Netherlands69.8%
3 Denmark68.0%
4 Germany63.5%
5 Iceland62.5%
6 France61.7%
7 Australia61.2%
8 Switzerland60.2%
9 Belgium59.1%
10 Sweden56.0%
11 India55.8%
12 Republic of Korea54.2%
13 Spain 52.9%
14 Czech Republic52.2%
15 United Kingdom50.9%
16 Croatia49.0%
17 Finland48.2%
17 Georgia48.2%
19 Austria47.9%
20 Russian Federation47.2%
21 Japan44.8%
22 Lithuania43.7%
23 Israel42.6%
24 Venezuela42.2%
25 Poland41.7%
26 United States41.4%
27 Slovenia41.1%
28 Philippines38.2%
29 Hungary37.0%
30 Turkiye35.0%
31 South Africa33.3%
32 Slovakia30.7%
33 Taiwan22.5%
34 Chile20.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 2.580974 X +5.226
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 126797.053266 X -22066.061
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 19.367687 X +69.067
Correlation coefficient (r)0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.998704 X +2.127
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.115466 X +10.905
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000