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Question: Have you donated money or raised funds for a social or political activity, 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 Austria76.3%
2 Switzerland70.2%
3 Germany67.5%
4 Netherlands63.5%
5 Denmark62.4%
6 Portugal59.6%
7 Norway56.3%
8 New Zealand51.2%
9 United States50.1%
10 Canada49.8%
11 France47.8%
12 Sweden43.5%
13 Ireland43.4%
14 Australia43.1%
15 Japan 42.9%
16 Finland40.8%
17 Mexico36.5%
18 Latvia34.9%
19 Israel33.2%
20 United Kingdom31.4%
21 Chile31.1%
22 Belgium30.8%
23 Slovakia29.0%
24 Republic of Korea27.1%
25 Spain25.3%
26 Slovenia23.2%
27 Czech Republic21.7%
28 Poland21.6%
29 Hungary8.5%

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 = 1.200877 X +6.260
Correlation coefficient (r)0.423
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.179

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 87549.546396 X +9798.645
Correlation coefficient (r)0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 8.658784 X +76.653
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.015007 X +1.606
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -3.374097 X +11.807
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026