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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 Sweden14.5%
9 Switzerland12.9%
10 United Kingdom12.5%
11 Iceland12.4%
12 Belgium 12.1%
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 = 10.785355 X +5.665
Correlation coefficient (r)0.839
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.704

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 303793.742607 X +13860.381
Correlation coefficient (r)0.730
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.533

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 22.041006 X +78.348
Correlation coefficient (r)0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.107416 X +1.600
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -10.285270 X +14.643
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010