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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 "Voting gives people like me some say about how the government runs things"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Spain82.1%
2 Republic of Korea81.7%
3 Sweden81.1%
3 Turkiye81.1%
5 Canada79.4%
6 United States77.0%
7 Czech Republic76.6%
8 Slovakia75.7%
9 France72.8%
10 Australia72.4%
11 Netherlands72.0%
12 Poland71.7%
13 Israel70.8%
14 Germany66.9%
15 United Kingdom66.5%
16 Lithuania66.4%
17 Italy65.7%
18 Greece65.0%
19 Mexico55.7%
20 Hungary55.1%
21 Japan 47.1%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

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

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.627785 X +6.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 52781.469971 X +2417.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 5.671288 X +76.291
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.157593 X +1.642
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 3.821549 X +6.919
Correlation coefficient (r)0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005