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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of the important political issues facing our country"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada68.0%
2 Australia64.5%
3 New Zealand63.6%
4 Ireland63.1%
5 Israel62.6%
6 France62.5%
7 Italy 52.3%
8 Norway51.1%
9 Poland48.2%
10 United States45.1%
11 Slovenia42.0%
12 Switzerland41.3%
13 Germany39.4%
14 Spain39.0%
15 Hungary29.2%
16 Latvia28.8%
17 Czech Republic28.7%
18 Japan21.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1996

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 1.843226 X +5.923
Correlation coefficient (r)0.567
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.321

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 77082.864338 X +12455.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 8.056709 X +76.975
Correlation coefficient (r)0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 0.765269 X +1.231
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -13.952186 X +19.284
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257