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Question: Have you boycotted, or deliberately bought, certain products for political, ethical or environmental reasons, 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 Austria57.0%
2 Australia55.2%
3 Switzerland55.1%
4 Sweden54.4%
5 Canada54.0%
5 Denmark54.0%
7 New Zealand50.7%
8 France49.3%
9 Finland45.7%
10 Netherlands42.9%
11 Germany40.8%
12 United Kingdom40.1%
13 United States38.8%
14 Norway38.5%
15 Ireland30.1%
16 Republic of Korea29.5%
17 Belgium22.5%
18 Spain22.3%
19 Portugal20.6%
20 Taiwan20.3%
21 Israel19.9%
21 Japan 19.9%
23 Venezuela19.8%
24 Uruguay18.3%
25 Czech Republic14.4%
26 Slovakia14.1%
27 Slovenia13.9%
28 Mexico12.4%
29 Cyprus11.1%
29 South Africa11.1%
31 Brazil9.6%
32 Latvia9.4%
33 Russian Federation6.6%
34 Philippines6.5%
35 Chile5.1%
35 Hungary5.1%
35 Poland5.1%
38 Bulgaria3.2%

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 = 2.240603 X +5.974
Correlation coefficient (r)0.707
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.500

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 106609.905568 X +10427.512
Correlation coefficient (r)0.729
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.531

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 19.063997 X +73.225
Correlation coefficient (r)0.643
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.413

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -0.315582 X +1.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 0.291084 X +10.348
Correlation coefficient (r)0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000