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Question: How interested would you say you personally are in politics?
Choices: "Very interested" "Fairly interested" "Somewhat interested" "Not very interested" "Not at all interested"
Average score (as "Very interested"=5 "Fairly interested"=4 "Somewhat interested"=3 "Not very interested"=2 "Not at all interested"=1)
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia3.50
2 Canada3.44
3 France3.40
3 New Zealand3.40
5 Israel3.21
6 United States3.20
7 Norway3.19
8 Czech Republic3.07
8 Sweden3.07
10 United Kingdom3.01
11 Germany2.96
12 Italy2.92
13 Switzerland2.91
14 Japan 2.90
15 Ireland2.87
16 Latvia2.79
17 Poland2.73
18 Slovenia2.65
19 Hungary2.47
20 Spain2.37

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 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.755630 X +4.468
Correlation coefficient (r)0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 34739.824255 X -54060.042
Correlation coefficient (r)0.405
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.164

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.692430 X +69.677
Correlation coefficient (r)0.341
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.419577 X +0.368
Correlation coefficient (r)0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.398868 X +8.792
Correlation coefficient (r)0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002