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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? "Most politicians are in politics only for what they can get out of it personally"Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland85.4%
2 Portugal83.6%
3 Mexico76.8%
4 Slovakia73.8%
5 Czech Republic73.0%
6 Latvia72.6%
7 Republic of Korea69.7%
8 Slovenia67.1%
9 France63.1%
10 Chile60.6%
11 Israel60.3%
12 Japan 59.2%
13 Hungary58.4%
14 Germany57.6%
15 Austria57.2%
16 Ireland55.6%
16 Spain55.6%
18 Finland53.5%
19 Belgium52.7%
20 Australia49.2%
21 Switzerland48.2%
22 United States48.1%
23 Canada45.6%
24 United Kingdom44.0%
25 New Zealand39.3%
26 Sweden33.1%
27 Denmark27.1%
27 Netherlands27.1%
29 Norway23.4%

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 = -1.984899 X +7.876
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -108271.144957 X +107227.448
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -11.426609 X +86.690
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.163257 X +1.691
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.875716 X +9.895
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002