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Question: How often are you asked to help influence important decisions in other people's favour?
Choices: "Never" "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Data: % of "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland84.3%
2 Latvia84.1%
3 Ireland84.0%
4 Switzerland81.2%
5 Germany80.6%
6 Japan 80.5%
7 Hungary80.1%
8 Portugal79.6%
9 South Africa78.4%
10 Czech Republic77.8%
11 Chile77.3%
12 Spain76.9%
13 Dominican Republic76.7%
14 Norway75.7%
15 Canada75.3%
16 Philippines73.9%
17 Croatia73.7%
18 United Kingdom73.4%
19 Uruguay73.1%
20 Sweden72.4%
21 Republic of Korea72.3%
22 Australia72.1%
23 Denmark71.1%
24 Russian Federation70.5%
25 Poland70.2%
26 New Zealand69.0%
27 Taiwan68.0%
28 Israel67.6%
29 France66.6%
29 Netherlands66.6%
31 United States65.4%
32 Slovenia48.2%
33 Venezuela21.4%

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 = 0.766133 X +6.029
Correlation coefficient (r)0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 52678.702270 X +2218.139
Correlation coefficient (r)0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 7.941085 X +72.893
Correlation coefficient (r)0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.906729 X +2.346
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 9.383478 X +4.037
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046