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Question: Have you belonged to a sports, leisure or cultural group?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands56.2%
2 Denmark52.2%
3 Sweden49.9%
4 Belgium47.0%
5 New Zealand45.9%
6 Ireland44.7%
7 Norway44.0%
8 France43.9%
9 Australia43.6%
10 Switzerland43.2%
11 Austria42.5%
12 Canada42.0%
13 Germany41.4%
14 Finland39.7%
15 Slovenia35.1%
16 United States30.8%
17 United Kingdom28.2%
18 Israel28.0%
19 Mexico24.5%
20 Spain24.4%
21 Japan 23.3%
22 Venezuela23.0%
23 Uruguay22.4%
24 Republic of Korea22.2%
25 Taiwan21.2%
26 Chile21.0%
27 Czech Republic20.6%
28 Philippines20.1%
29 Latvia19.4%
30 Slovakia15.3%
31 Cyprus14.8%
32 Portugal13.6%
33 Brazil12.1%
34 Poland7.6%
34 Russian Federation7.6%
36 Hungary7.5%
37 Bulgaria3.6%

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

No data for 201 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 3.042824 X +5.720
Correlation coefficient (r)0.811
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.658

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 134198.099330 X +866.772
Correlation coefficient (r)0.744
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.554

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 21.259250 X +72.594
Correlation coefficient (r)0.657
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.432

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 0.156693 X +1.589
Correlation coefficient (r)0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 1.396982 X +9.652
Correlation coefficient (r)0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002