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Question: When you get together with your friends, relatives or fellow workers, how often do you discuss politics?
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Rarely" "Never"
Data: % of "Often" "Sometimes"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands72.0%
2 Norway68.8%
3 Denmark67.7%
4 Republic of Korea65.4%
5 France65.1%
6 Germany64.0%
7 Canada60.9%
8 New Zealand59.5%
9 Australia58.1%
10 Switzerland 56.5%
11 Sweden55.8%
12 Austria53.8%
13 United States52.4%
14 Israel51.9%
15 Belgium50.7%
16 Latvia49.9%
17 Japan49.3%
18 United Kingdom45.6%
19 Slovakia45.4%
20 Spain43.6%
21 Czech Republic41.2%
22 Slovenia41.0%
23 Finland40.9%
24 Hungary40.7%
25 Ireland39.0%
26 Mexico38.5%
27 Portugal34.9%
28 Poland33.0%
29 Chile24.5%

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 = 1.651761 X +5.929
Correlation coefficient (r)0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 109728.377353 X -8913.375
Correlation coefficient (r)0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 13.929366 X +73.242
Correlation coefficient (r)0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.040965 X +1.579
Correlation coefficient (r)0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 6.154540 X +7.264
Correlation coefficient (r)0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045