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Question: Do you agree that there is little that people can do to change the course of their lives?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States82.9%
2 Australia80.5%
3 France70.6%
4 United Kingdom69.9%
5 Republic of Korea69.5%
6 Germany69.0%
7 Sweden64.8%
8 Japan 64.3%
9 Italy36.1%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.098946 X +5.885
Correlation coefficient (r)0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 74164.330485 X -1817.052
Correlation coefficient (r)0.656
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.430

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.528518 X +87.016
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.908533 X +0.871
Correlation coefficient (r)0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 18.250139 X -1.136
Correlation coefficient (r)0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252