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Question: Thinking now about politics in the country, to what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - "Political parties do not give voters real policy choices"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal68.7%
2 France66.0%
3 Germany62.8%
4 Australia62.3%
5 Austria60.0%
6 Canada59.7%
6 Ireland59.7%
8 Japan58.9%
9 Belgium57.4%
10 Republic of Korea55.6%
11 Finland55.4%
12 Israel54.5%
13 Spain54.3%
14 United Kingdom53.4%
15 New Zealand53.3%
16 Czech Republic52.1%
17 Poland50.3%
18 Mexico49.0%
19 Slovenia46.6%
20 Norway46.0%
21 Chile45.4%
22 United States45.3%
23 Hungary44.9%
24 Sweden43.1%
25 Netherlands42.6%
26 Latvia39.1%
27 Slovakia37.7%
28 Denmark34.0%
29 Switzerland 33.8%

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 = -0.917560 X +7.239
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -18671.979142 X +56317.112
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 13.731935 X +73.239
Correlation coefficient (r)0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.232008 X +1.719
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -2.682412 X +11.764
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005