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Question: How often are you asked to help influence important decisions in other people's favour?
Choices: "Never" "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Data: % of "Seldom" "Occasionally" "Often"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany80.6%
2 Japan80.5%
3 Canada75.3%
4 United Kingdom73.4%
8 France 66.6%
9 United States65.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -1.624946 X +7.824
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.364
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -147556.525366 X +161452.955
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 18.516344 X +67.649
Correlation coefficient (r)0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.625749 X +3.447
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.852
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.726

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -13.925261 X +20.569
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.333
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.111