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Question: Have you contacted or appeared in the media to express your views, 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 Netherlands26.2%
2 Finland20.2%
3 Austria18.9%
4 Canada17.7%
5 Norway17.6%
6 New Zealand15.9%
7 Denmark15.4%
8 Australia14.6%
9 United States14.5%
10 France14.4%
11 Germany13.2%
12 Switzerland12.7%
13 Sweden 12.1%
14 Israel9.8%
14 Slovakia9.8%
16 United Kingdom9.7%
17 Mexico9.6%
18 Belgium9.3%
19 Slovenia8.7%
20 Latvia8.2%
21 Spain8.1%
22 Ireland7.6%
23 Portugal6.3%
24 Chile5.1%
25 Republic of Korea5.0%
26 Czech Republic4.8%
27 Hungary3.6%
28 Japan2.8%
28 Poland2.8%

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 = 6.002511 X +6.095
Correlation coefficient (r)0.727
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.529

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 230894.583248 X +20867.075
Correlation coefficient (r)0.522
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.272

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 18.827748 X +78.196
Correlation coefficient (r)0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.742652 X +1.516
Correlation coefficient (r)0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -3.387409 X +10.763
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003