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Question: Thinking of the last national election in the country, how fair was it regarding the opportunities of the candidates and parties to campaign?
Choices: "Very fair" "Somewhat fair" "Neither fair or unfair" "Somewhat unfair" "Very unfair"
Data: % of "Very fair" "Somewhat fair"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Poland77.4%
6 Canada72.6%
7 Denmark72.1%
8 Belgium70.5%
9 United States70.1%
10 United Kingdom69.2%
11 Austria69.1%
12 Ireland67.4%
13 Australia67.0%
14 Sweden64.4%
16 Switzerland63.5%
22 Chile56.2%
24 Slovakia53.1%
27 Czech Republic47.6%
29 Finland 41.2%

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 23 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -0.611045 X +7.303
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 73414.349721 X +6131.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 3.875554 X +77.856
Correlation coefficient (r)0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -0.299871 X +1.783
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.229
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -2.299049 X +11.847
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010