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Question: Have you contacted or appeared in the media to express your views, might you do that, or would you never under any circumstances do that?
Choices: "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past" "Have not done it but might do it" "Have not done it and would never do it"
Data: % of "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past"
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands26.2%
2 Finland20.2%
3 Austria18.9%
4 Canada17.7%
5 Norway17.6%
6 New Zealand15.9%
7 Denmark15.4%
8 Australia14.6%
9 United States14.5%
10 France14.4%
11 Germany13.2%
12 Switzerland12.7%
13 Sweden12.1%
14 Uruguay10.0%
14 Venezuela10.0%
16 Israel9.8%
16 Slovakia9.8%
18 United Kingdom9.7%
19 Mexico9.6%
20 Belgium9.3%
21 Slovenia8.7%
22 Latvia8.2%
23 Spain8.1%
24 Ireland7.6%
25 Portugal6.3%
26 Russian Federation5.9%
27 Chile5.1%
27 Cyprus5.1%
29 Republic of Korea5.0%
30 Czech Republic4.8%
31 Philippines4.5%
32 Bulgaria4.0%
32 Taiwan4.0%
34 Brazil3.9%
35 Hungary3.6%
36 South Africa2.9%
37 Japan 2.8%
37 Poland2.8%

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 200 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 7.359593 X +5.853
Correlation coefficient (r)0.730
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.533

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 278633.848962 X +11759.229
Correlation coefficient (r)0.599
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.359

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 43.491939 X +74.054
Correlation coefficient (r)0.455
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.207

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -0.290518 X +1.684
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -3.828843 X +10.811
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002