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Question: Have you signed a petition, 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 Australia80.0%
2 France 73.8%
2 Sweden73.8%
4 United Kingdom70.4%
5 United States66.8%
6 Germany62.6%
7 Japan42.6%
8 Republic of Korea40.1%

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 = 2.648797 X +4.976
Correlation coefficient (r)0.886
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.785

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 67750.369667 X +6823.671
Correlation coefficient (r)0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -4.895556 X +84.947
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.938853 X +0.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.888
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.789

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -18.061736 X +23.558
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.604
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.365