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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:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland21.5%
2 Netherlands17.7%
3 Germany17.6%
4 Norway17.2%
5 Denmark15.4%
6 Australia14.7%
6 Austria14.7%
8 Sweden 14.5%
9 Switzerland12.9%
10 United Kingdom12.5%
11 Iceland12.4%
12 Belgium12.1%
13 United States11.3%
14 Czech Republic10.5%
15 France9.5%
16 Israel8.6%
16 Spain8.6%
18 Slovenia7.5%
19 Slovakia6.8%
20 Chile6.7%
21 Lithuania6.5%
22 Republic of Korea4.7%
23 Turkiye3.1%
24 Japan3.0%
25 Poland2.4%
26 Hungary1.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 8.834749 X +5.834
Correlation coefficient (r)0.786
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.618

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 317368.139726 X +12839.212
Correlation coefficient (r)0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 29.037095 X +77.358
Correlation coefficient (r)0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 0.686821 X +1.538
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -4.211858 X +11.084
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003