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Question: People sometimes belong to different kinds of groups or associations. The list below contains different types of groups. For each type of group, please tick a box to say whether you have participated in the activities of this group in the past 12 months. - A church or other religious organisation
Choices: "I have participated more than twice" "I have participated once or twice" "I belong to such a group but never participate" "I do not belong to such a group"
Data: % of "I have participated more than twice" "I have participated once or twice" "I belong to such a group but never participate"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland65.9%
2 United States63.2%
3 Canada51.5%
4 Germany44.5%
5 Denmark42.6%
6 New Zealand36.9%
7 Australia34.2%
8 Norway33.8%
9 Slovenia30.6%
10 Israel28.8%
11 United Kingdom28.7%
12 Austria 28.4%
13 Switzerland27.7%
14 Chile25.5%
15 Czech Republic17.9%
16 Italy16.6%
17 France15.1%
18 Spain12.6%
19 Japan9.9%
20 Hungary9.4%
21 Poland7.2%
22 Latvia6.8%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.896147 X +6.230
Correlation coefficient (r)0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 78757.004432 X +24097.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.557
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.310

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 4.331439 X +79.353
Correlation coefficient (r)0.230
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.214182 X +1.546
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 3.547000 X +8.882
Correlation coefficient (r)0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039