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Question: Have you belonged to a trade union, business, or professional association?
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 Denmark69.1%
2 Sweden64.2%
3 Finland55.9%
4 Norway52.7%
5 Canada39.2%
6 Belgium37.4%
7 Austria37.1%
8 Netherlands30.5%
9 Ireland28.7%
10 Cyprus27.7%
10 New Zealand27.7%
12 Australia27.5%
13 Taiwan26.6%
14 Switzerland26.2%
15 Slovenia25.5%
16 Israel22.0%
17 Russian Federation21.4%
18 United States21.1%
19 France20.4%
20 United Kingdom20.3%
21 Germany17.8%
22 Japan 14.1%
22 Mexico14.1%
24 Spain14.0%
25 Latvia13.9%
26 Brazil13.1%
27 Uruguay12.8%
28 Slovakia12.7%
29 Portugal12.2%
30 Bulgaria11.8%
31 Czech Republic11.2%
32 Venezuela10.7%
33 Hungary10.5%
34 Poland7.6%
35 Chile6.9%
35 Republic of Korea6.9%
37 Philippines5.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. 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 = 2.571397 X +6.001
Correlation coefficient (r)0.748
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.560

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 105385.805715 X +15152.348
Correlation coefficient (r)0.638
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.407

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 14.509221 X +75.434
Correlation coefficient (r)0.492
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.242

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -0.105319 X +1.660
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 2.651401 X +9.438
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008