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Question: Have you belonged to a trade union, business, or professional association?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark69.1%
2 Sweden64.2%
3 Finland55.9%
4 Norway52.7%
5 Canada39.2%
6 Belgium37.4%
7 Austria37.1%
8 Netherlands30.5%
9 Ireland28.7%
10 New Zealand27.7%
11 Australia27.5%
12 Switzerland 26.2%
13 Slovenia25.5%
14 Israel22.0%
15 United States21.1%
16 France20.4%
17 United Kingdom20.3%
18 Germany17.8%
19 Japan14.1%
19 Mexico14.1%
21 Spain14.0%
22 Latvia13.9%
23 Slovakia12.7%
24 Portugal12.2%
25 Czech Republic11.2%
26 Hungary10.5%
27 Poland7.6%
28 Chile6.9%
28 Republic of Korea6.9%

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 = 2.286209 X +6.178
Correlation coefficient (r)0.819
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.671

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 89033.461286 X +23765.273
Correlation coefficient (r)0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 9.006838 X +77.982
Correlation coefficient (r)0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.239879 X +1.537
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.596065 X +10.231
Correlation coefficient (r)0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001