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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. How about "Most elected officials care what people like me think"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye57.6%
2 Sweden57.5%
3 Netherlands55.3%
4 Poland48.6%
5 Canada40.5%
6 Australia38.6%
7 Republic of Korea37.6%
8 Germany36.6%
9 Israel35.4%
10 Mexico34.7%
11 Slovakia34.3%
12 United Kingdom30.8%
13 Italy30.5%
14 Lithuania30.0%
15 United States28.0%
16 Hungary27.6%
17 Japan 25.7%
18 France25.3%
19 Czech Republic24.8%
20 Spain21.7%
21 Greece11.2%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.656491 X +6.322
Correlation coefficient (r)0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 22050.287853 X +31996.512
Correlation coefficient (r)0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.314411 X +80.186
Correlation coefficient (r)0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.305365 X +1.424
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 1.156643 X +9.214
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001