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Question: How interested would you say you personally are in politics?
Choices: "Very interested" "Fairly interested" "Somewhat interested" "Not very interested" "Not at all interested"
Average score (as "Very interested"=5 "Fairly interested"=4 "Somewhat interested"=3 "Not very interested"=2 "Not at all interested"=1)
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark3.42
2 Australia3.40
2 France3.40
4 Netherlands3.39
4 Norway3.39
6 New Zealand3.29
7 Canada3.26
8 Venezuela3.25
9 United States3.17
10 Sweden3.09
11 Israel3.04
12 Germany3.03
13 Japan 2.96
14 Finland2.90
14 Switzerland2.90
16 Czech Republic2.88
16 Ireland2.88
18 United Kingdom2.84
19 Philippines2.82
20 Latvia2.67
21 Poland2.64
22 Hungary2.61
23 Uruguay2.57
24 Slovenia2.52
25 Spain2.51
26 South Africa2.50
27 Republic of Korea2.47
28 Croatia2.32
29 Argentina2.30
30 Russian Federation2.28
31 Dominican Republic2.25
32 Portugal2.13
33 Taiwan2.08
34 Chile2.04

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.830915 X +4.245
Correlation coefficient (r)0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 38660.948499 X -68698.126
Correlation coefficient (r)0.600
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.360

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 5.158309 X +63.996
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.128506 X +1.332
Correlation coefficient (r)0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.627224 X +18.172
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045