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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany17.6%
2 Australia14.7%
3 Sweden14.5%
4 United Kingdom12.5%
5 United States11.3%
6 France 9.5%
7 Republic of Korea4.7%
8 Japan3.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 7.355041 X +5.858
Correlation coefficient (r)0.839
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.704

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 180434.819294 X +30220.279
Correlation coefficient (r)0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -17.463085 X +83.742
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.342
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.117

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.193925 X +1.053
Correlation coefficient (r)0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -50.130643 X +17.543
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327