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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland21.5%
2 India21.3%
3 Netherlands17.7%
4 Germany17.6%
5 Norway17.2%
6 Denmark15.4%
7 Australia14.7%
7 Austria14.7%
9 Sweden14.5%
10 Switzerland12.9%
11 United Kingdom12.5%
12 Iceland12.4%
13 Belgium12.1%
14 United States11.3%
15 Venezuela10.8%
16 Czech Republic10.5%
17 France9.5%
18 Georgia8.8%
19 Israel8.6%
19 Spain8.6%
21 Philippines8.1%
22 Slovenia7.5%
22 South Africa7.5%
24 Slovakia6.8%
25 Chile6.7%
26 Lithuania6.5%
27 Taiwan5.5%
28 Croatia4.9%
29 Republic of Korea4.7%
30 Russian Federation3.9%
31 Turkiye3.1%
32 Japan 3.0%
33 Poland2.4%
34 Hungary1.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 5.397517 X +5.936
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 253639.936807 X +12291.363
Correlation coefficient (r)0.514
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.264

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 25.499487 X +75.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.578128 X +1.650
Correlation coefficient (r)0.074
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -10.251074 X +11.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011