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Question: Have you boycotted, or deliberately bought, certain products for political, ethical or environmental reasons, 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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Austria 57.0%
2 Australia55.2%
3 Switzerland55.1%
4 Sweden54.4%
5 Canada54.0%
5 Denmark54.0%
7 New Zealand50.7%
8 France49.3%
9 Finland45.7%
10 Netherlands42.9%
11 Germany40.8%
12 United Kingdom40.1%
13 United States38.8%
14 Norway38.5%
15 Ireland30.1%
16 Republic of Korea29.5%
17 Belgium22.5%
18 Spain22.3%
19 Portugal20.6%
20 Israel19.9%
20 Japan19.9%
22 Czech Republic14.4%
23 Slovakia14.1%
24 Slovenia13.9%
25 Mexico12.4%
26 Latvia9.4%
27 Chile5.1%
27 Hungary5.1%
27 Poland5.1%

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 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 1.678623 X +6.234
Correlation coefficient (r)0.637
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.406

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 92872.249646 X +17222.804
Correlation coefficient (r)0.657
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.432

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 12.198530 X +76.430
Correlation coefficient (r)0.602
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.362

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.050142 X +1.615
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.548264 X +10.210
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001