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Question: Have you attended a political meeting or rally, 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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada39.4%
2 France 38.1%
3 Germany35.9%
4 United States32.4%
5 Sweden28.3%
6 Australia22.4%
7 United Kingdom15.6%
8 Japan14.9%
9 Republic of Korea11.9%

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 = 1.955920 X +6.172
Correlation coefficient (r)0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 61886.557626 X +34152.668
Correlation coefficient (r)0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.846082 X +83.994
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.739891 X +1.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -16.013894 X +16.103
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168