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Question: Thinking now about politics in the country, to what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - "Referendums are a good way to decide important political questions"
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Switzerland83.0%
5 Austria80.5%
6 Denmark80.4%
9 Finland74.6%
11 Sweden70.9%
13 Chile 70.3%
15 United Kingdom67.2%
16 Poland67.1%
17 Canada66.1%
19 Czech Republic64.0%
20 United States63.6%
21 Australia63.4%
23 Belgium60.1%
24 Ireland58.0%
28 Slovakia46.4%

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 23 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 2.887331 X +5.050
Correlation coefficient (r)0.559
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.312

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 78291.680669 X -131.221
Correlation coefficient (r)0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 11.506044 X +72.776
Correlation coefficient (r)0.492
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.242

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -0.308215 X +1.757
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.263
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 2.724817 X +10.862
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008