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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada17.7%
2 Australia14.6%
3 United States14.5%
4 France 14.4%
5 Germany13.2%
6 Sweden12.1%
7 United Kingdom9.7%
8 Republic of Korea5.0%
9 Japan2.8%

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 = 6.443456 X +5.947
Correlation coefficient (r)0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 209745.856645 X +26342.812
Correlation coefficient (r)0.717
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.514

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -19.948969 X +84.216
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.200824 X +1.019
Correlation coefficient (r)0.676
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.457

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -37.057984 X +16.134
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187