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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands26.2%
2 Finland20.2%
3 Austria18.9%
4 Canada17.7%
5 Norway17.6%
6 New Zealand15.9%
7 Denmark15.4%
8 Australia14.6%
9 United States14.5%
10 France14.4%
11 Germany13.2%
12 Switzerland12.7%
13 Sweden12.1%
14 Israel 9.8%
14 Slovakia9.8%
16 United Kingdom9.7%
17 Mexico9.6%
18 Belgium9.3%
19 Slovenia8.7%
20 Latvia8.2%
21 Spain8.1%
22 Ireland7.6%
23 Portugal6.3%
24 Chile5.1%
25 Republic of Korea5.0%
26 Czech Republic4.8%
27 Hungary3.6%
28 Japan2.8%
28 Poland2.8%

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 = 7.413121 X +5.985
Correlation coefficient (r)0.761
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.579

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 216685.234816 X +22067.198
Correlation coefficient (r)0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 13.633945 X +79.126
Correlation coefficient (r)0.295
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.087

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.303102 X +1.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -9.367409 X +14.204
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013