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Question: Are there people you could ask to help influence important decisions in your favour?
Choices: "No, nobody" "Yes, a few people" "Yes, some people" "Yes, a lot of people"
Data: % of "Yes, a few people" "Yes, some people" "Yes, a lot of people"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia95.4%
2 Switzerland92.1%
3 Germany90.9%
4 Croatia90.8%
5 Czech Republic88.7%
6 South Africa88.6%
7 Israel87.0%
8 United Kingdom86.4%
9 Chile85.4%
10 Australia84.7%
11 Finland84.6%
12 Ireland84.2%
13 Canada84.0%
14 France83.1%
15 Norway81.5%
16 Netherlands81.4%
17 Japan 81.3%
18 New Zealand80.6%
18 Venezuela80.6%
20 Hungary79.6%
21 Republic of Korea79.4%
22 United States79.2%
23 Denmark78.5%
24 Portugal76.8%
25 Sweden75.4%
26 Uruguay72.4%
27 Spain70.4%
28 Russian Federation68.0%
29 Dominican Republic64.2%
30 Philippines64.0%
31 Taiwan62.3%
32 Poland58.3%
33 Slovenia55.0%

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.012834 X +5.781
Correlation coefficient (r)0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 88258.452557 X -29594.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 9.629952 X +70.969
Correlation coefficient (r)0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.000357 X +1.689
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.000
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 3.203889 X +8.285
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004