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Question: Have you belonged to a trade union, business, or professional association?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden64.2%
2 Canada39.2%
3 Australia27.5%
4 United States21.1%
5 France 20.4%
6 United Kingdom20.3%
7 Germany17.8%
8 Japan14.1%
9 Republic of Korea6.9%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.071997 X +6.158
Correlation coefficient (r)0.835
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.697

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 35023.201413 X +41571.365
Correlation coefficient (r)0.416
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.173

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.783444 X +81.452
Correlation coefficient (r)0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.775514 X +1.305
Correlation coefficient (r)0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.506222 X +13.269
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050