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Question: Have you belonged to a trade union, business, or professional association?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden64.2%
2 Canada39.2%
3 Australia27.5%
4 United States21.1%
5 France20.4%
6 United Kingdom20.3%
7 Germany17.8%
8 Japan 14.1%
9 Republic of Korea6.9%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.108676 X +6.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.720
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.518

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 34630.498815 X +42410.044
Correlation coefficient (r)0.519
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.269

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.337414 X +81.931
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.708307 X +1.304
Correlation coefficient (r)0.426
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -11.207896 X +17.661
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110