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Question: Have you contacted, or attempted to contact, a politician or a civil servant to express your views, might you do that, or would you never under any circumstances do that?
Choices: "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past" "Have not done it but might do it" "Have not done it and would never do it"
Data: % of "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia37.1%
2 United States37.0%
3 United Kingdom30.0%
4 Netherlands27.6%
5 Austria26.5%
6 Belgium24.4%
7 Finland 24.0%
8 Norway23.7%
9 Sweden23.5%
10 Germany23.3%
11 Denmark23.0%
12 Slovakia19.5%
12 Switzerland19.5%
14 Iceland19.0%
15 France18.7%
16 Spain16.9%
17 Czech Republic15.4%
18 Israel14.7%
19 Chile14.1%
20 Slovenia11.7%
21 Lithuania10.3%
22 Republic of Korea7.5%
23 Poland6.1%
24 Turkiye5.3%
25 Japan4.6%
26 Hungary4.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 3.826805 X +6.046
Correlation coefficient (r)0.586
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.343

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 170113.952166 X +16378.899
Correlation coefficient (r)0.678
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.460

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 7.138656 X +79.469
Correlation coefficient (r)0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 0.445182 X +1.441
Correlation coefficient (r)0.117
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -2.163703 X +11.047
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002